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James Clear - "The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm our host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by that great news podcast. Why should you listen?
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  Because good news should be heard.
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  And the link is right here in the show notes.
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  Today's quote is another one from James Clear, author of
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  Atomic Habits, one of the best selling books on human behavior
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  ever written, with over 25,000,000 copies sold worldwide
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  and a man who has spent his career studying not just what
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  people do, but why it matters. He once said the secret is not
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  to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things
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  that are meaningful. Humanity has been searching for
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  the meaning of life for as long as there have been humans to
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  search for things. Philosophers, theologians,
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  scientists, poets, every tradition, every era, every
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  culture has taken a turn at the question.
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  And the answer, after all that searching remains as elusive as
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  it was at the beginning, clears insight, is that we've been
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  asking the wrong question. The search for meaning, treated
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  as a discovery problem, something to be found if only
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  you look in the right place, puts you in a fundamentally
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  passive position. Meaning is out there somewhere,
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  you just haven't located it yet. And so you wait, You read, you
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  search, you hope it'll announce itself when you finally looked
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  in the right direction. But meaning is not found.
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  It's made clear states that it is the act of creating the life
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  you want in big and small ways that makes you feel alive and
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  gives life that extra meaning. The fact that you can hold a
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  vision in your mind and then, however imperfectly, bend
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  reality a few degrees in that direction.
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  That's the shift from passive searching to active making, from
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  waiting for meaning to arrive to building it through the work you
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  commit to the relationships you invest in, the things you
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  create, that problems you choose to solve, the people you choose
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  to serve. Think about the moments in your
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  own life that had felt most meaningful.
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  Almost none of them were moments of passive discovery.
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  They were moments of making things, A project completed, a
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  connection deepen, a challenge met, something brought into the
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  world that wasn't there before. The meaning wasn't waiting for
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  you. You created it through the act
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  of showing up and doing whatever The thing is for you.
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  This reframes everything. The question isn't what is the
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  meaning of life? A question that can paralyze you
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  indefinitely. The question is, what meaningful
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  things am I making with my life right now?
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  And that question has an answer you can act on today.
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  So here's the question What meaningful thing are you
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  currently making? Or what meaningful thing have
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  you been waiting to start making while you wait to feel more
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  certain about the larger purpose?
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  Because the secret, as Clear says, isn't in the finding, it's
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  in the making. And the making can start today.
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  Stop searching for the meaning of your life.
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  Start making things that are meaningful, and then the meaning
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  will follow. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.