Throughout our lives, we accept a number of predefined roles, each with associated tasks, schedules, and behavioral expectations. These roles—student, employee, spouse, parent, and so on—help us ...

Viktor Frankl—the Austrian neurologist, psychologist, and philosopher—devoted his life to helping people successfully navigate their time in mortality. With benefit of his perspective as a Holocaust ...

Why do high-achieving young people often suffer anxiety and depression? They might be searching for the meaning of life.

What is the purpose of life? There are as many answers to this age-old question as there are people, and they run the gamut from hopeful to nihilistic to, well, nonexistent. Here are just a few famous ...

In this first post of my blog, I outline the pragmatism and benefits of meaning-centered psychotherapies by providing an overview on how to use them in real life. Pragmatism is about connecting with ...

The question of life’s true purpose has baffled humanity for millennia. Philosophers, religious leaders, psychologists, and even scientists have all offered their interpretations. While no single ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. MeiMei Fox writes about aligning your career with your life purpose. Women – disproportionately burdened by childcare, unpaid ...

One of the most fundamental questions humans face is the question of meaning: what is the purpose of our existence, and how can we find purpose and meaning in this life? Bertrand Russell, the renowned ...