“Self-Vs-Other” Mindset.
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Purpose
One distinction between happiness and purpose is who lives for self vs. who lives for others.
People leading happy lives OBTAIN joy from receiving benefits from others, while people leading purposeful lives EXPERIENCE joy from giving to others.
Purpose transcends the self, while happiness focuses on giving the self what it wants.
On the purpose path, it’s not “what” we do; it’s “who” we bring to what we do to make things better. What matters is becoming larger than ourselves. Once we do, we learn that there is no truer joy in life than making the lives of others a little better.
