Why Searching for Meaning Is Keeping You Stuck | 379

Do you live a meaningful life? Not "are you successful" or "are you productive" or "are you optimizing your mornings”, but does your life actually feel like it means something? Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man on Earth. He had every external condition for a meaningful life — wealth, status, purpose handed to him by birth. And yet, his private journals are full of reminders he had to write to himself just to keep going. Which tells you something important: meaning isn't a thing you find. It's a thing you build.