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Find the Meaning in Your Life Part 3: Why Meaning Matters

This is the final episode in my 3-part series on meaning, and it begins with a question I couldn’t ignore when I returned to campus five years ago: why do so many successful, driven people feel anxious, depressed, and lonely? Pre-order The Meaning of Your Life (out March 31).

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