My article, “How to Find Your Purpose in Life” by Jermey Adam Smith covers different ways to find your purpose in life and why it will benefit you and others. Finding our life purpose will grow from connecting, reading, emotional support, building community, and listening to others. Making the world a better place for you and others is what centers entirely around our life purpose.

This will contribute to my essential question because it gives crucial information on why life purpose is so important not only for ourselves but for the benefit of others. It also explains why it’s crucial for survival.

Benefiting Ourselves & Others:

It can be tough finding your life purpose, some harder than others. However, you must not think about how something will benefit you but how your purpose will benefit others in your community too.

Quote: “What impact do you see them having on the world? Is that impact a positive one? Can you join with them in making that impact? What do they need? Can you give it them?” (Smith 33)

This adds to my essential question because it clarifies how world doesn’t go around without the help of the people around us. We are not alone and we must think about others.

Survival:

In order to survive in a healthy way we must have a life purpose. Humans in general have a natural desire to find purpose and to accomplish bigger things. It’s not necessarily what you’re gifted at but what you’re passionate about and what you can do to benefit your life and the ones around you.

“a sense of purpose appears to have evolved in humans so that we can accomplish big things together… Purpose is adaptive, It helps both individuals and the species to survive.” (Smith 2)

This ties to my essential question because knowing is “necessary” for not just finding your uprose but how to get through everyday life.