Ask Yourself These 3 Questions When You Feel Lost in Life
Dr. Arthur Brooks · 1,229 words · 6 min read · EN-ORIG

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Here are the three questions. The three big whys that I ask myself continuously, that I I I I probe and I have to answer honestly because being honest with myself is the essence of getting into the moral space. Number one, why do I think things actually happen the way that they do? And am I
acting according accordance with that? And and for for for a religious person like me, if I say I think things happen the way they do because of the will of God, but I'm not acting that way, that's going to be a source of misery. Am I acting like I believe that the will of
God exists and is true? Or am I acting like everything has to do with me, which means I'm freaking out about everything, I'm I'm I'm super stressed out about, you know, what's going to happen tomorrow that's completely out of my control, I'm anxious all the time, I'm worrying continuously. Worry is evidence of a lack of faith.
And so therefore, if I say I'm committing to my faith, it immediately extinguishes worry, right? You don't shouldn't feel guilty about it. You should act according to the person that you are. Number one, that's the coherence question for philosophers. Why do things happen the way they do? Am I acting that way? Second,
why am I doing what I'm doing? That's the purpose question. You know, that's the purpose in life. That's Purpose and meaning are not the same thing. Purpose is a subcategory of meaning. Why am I doing the things that I am actually doing? And then the next question beyond that is is that in accord with my beliefs?
Am I doing the things that I'm doing in accord with my beliefs? But why am I doing them? And and and by the way, for you and me, it might be because I'm chasing my idol. Because I want more control, because I want more adoration of strangers, because I want more money, because I
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