Most Replayed Moment: Sadhguru on Why You Don’t Need a Life Purpose!

Do you ever feel stuck—like you’re just going through the motions instead of doing something really meaningful? Have you recently experienced upheaval in your life and don’t know what to do now? In Built Through Courage, motivational speaker, CEO, and former Disney executive Dave Hollis offers a solution to these common problems. According to Hollis, the key to living a happy and fulfilled life is achieving your unique purpose—a specific role you’re meant to fill.

In this guide, we’ll explore what purpose is, how to identify yours, and how to achieve it. We’ll compare Hollis’s ideas to those of other self-help authors like Tony Robbins, Mark Manson, and Greg McKeown, and we’ll examine the neuroscience behind Hollis’s ideas.

The 21st century will bring changes and challenges unlike any humans have encountered before. Globalism and technological innovations are changing the structures of societies worldwide—and the changes are happening quickly. If people don’t face these challenges and help shape the future, the world could have a class of obsolete workers whose jobs have been automated and people could lose their ability to make their own decisions. In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari highlights the biggest challenges in the modern world, and he offers advice on making sense of and navigating such transitional times.

In this summary, you'll learn how algorithms like Netflix movie recommendations are teaching you to distrust your own judgment, why religion can’t solve 21st-century challenges, and how automation will threaten the jobs of humans in every industry.

Purpose-driven people and organizations are more successful and fulfilled, and they contribute more to the world around them, according to Simon Sinek, best-selling author, coach, and popular TED Talk speaker. Find Your Why distills Sinek’s theory and his experience working with organizations and individuals into a workbook you can follow to discover your own purpose and strengths, or those of your organization.

According to Sinek, “finding your Why” means finding the single core belief that inspires you to do the work you choose to do and be the person you want to be in all spheres of your life. He believes every individual and organization has a purpose, though not everyone has discovered theirs or put it into words.

In this guide, we’ll explore Sinek’s steps to understanding and living your purpose and your organization’s. We’ll also highlight some of the critiques Sinek received for his approach, as well as alternatives to his theory and to the process he advocates for finding your purpose.

Did you know that practicing yoga can help you transform yourself, both inside and out? In Inner Engineering, renowned yogi Sadhguru shares his journey of self-discovery and provides readers with an introduction to the science of yoga and its transformative powers. Yoga, he explains, is not an exercise, nor a belief system—it’s a technology for managing your body, mind, and energy in a way that creates optimal conditions for your life. If you manage your physical and mental processes consciously, Sadhguru says your whole life experience will be of your own making.

In this guide, we’ll explain what inner engineering is by examining some of the mental and spiritual problems that plague humanity and the solutions and practices Sadhguru offers as a remedy. Throughout the guide, we’ll compare Sadhguru’s approach to other spiritual self-help authors and contextualize it within the larger tradition of yoga in the Hindu belief system.

The Happiness Hypothesis explores the nature of human happiness, blending the philosophical and theological wisdom of ancient thinkers with insights from the field of positive psychology. Our satisfaction is driven by how our mental filters interpret the events in our lives, with the human brain perpetually divided against itself in the struggle between the desires created by our emotions and the attempts of reason to control them. The key to happiness is to use reason to focus the mind away from desires that will only bring fleeting happiness, while giving in to those desires that will bring lasting fulfillment.

Although we live longer today and have more material wealth than ever, many people feel anxious rather than happy. In Flow, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi offers an antidote. People are happiest when they feel in control of their inner thoughts and feelings and experience a “flow state”: a sense of enjoyment, purpose, and meaning.

Csikszentmihalyi explains: how controlling and ordering your consciousness brings flow and enjoyment, which personality characteristics produce flow, and how to find flow in your work and relationships.

Did you know that practicing yoga can help you transform yourself, both inside and out? In Inner Engineering, renowned yogi Sadhguru shares his journey of self-discovery and provides readers with an introduction to the science of yoga and its transformative powers. Yoga, he explains, is not an exercise, nor a belief system—it’s a technology for managing your body, mind, and energy in a way that creates optimal conditions for your life. If you manage your physical and mental processes consciously, Sadhguru says your whole life experience will be of your own making.

In this guide, we’ll explain what inner engineering is by examining some of the mental and spiritual problems that plague humanity and the solutions and practices Sadhguru offers as a remedy. Throughout the guide, we’ll compare Sadhguru’s approach to other spiritual self-help authors and contextualize it within the larger tradition of yoga in the Hindu belief system.

The Happiness Hypothesis explores the nature of human happiness, blending the philosophical and theological wisdom of ancient thinkers with insights from the field of positive psychology. Our satisfaction is driven by how our mental filters interpret the events in our lives, with the human brain perpetually divided against itself in the struggle between the desires created by our emotions and the attempts of reason to control them. The key to happiness is to use reason to focus the mind away from desires that will only bring fleeting happiness, while giving in to those desires that will bring lasting fulfillment.