Stop Making Meaning Matter
The meaning crisis is the experience of an existential vacuum on a societal scale, evidenced by an increase of anxiety disorders, depression, and suicide rates
Peter Limberg • Becoming a Live Player
“Meaning-making is a growth industry,” said ter Kuile.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Problems are created, Marcus is saying with the Stoics, not by events in the world but rather by how we interpret those events. That interpretation might involve a snap judgement or a more complex narrative that we tell ourselves, but it is this stage in the proceedings that leads to our problems. Hence the same event ‘out there’ in the world might
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So what is meaning? Meaning, for the human mind, comes in the form of the stories we tell ourselves about the world.