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You Have No Purpose Because You Won’t Do Hard Things

The antidote to a meaningless life

Kyle Chastain
7 min readMar 14, 2024
Photo by ELLA DON on Unsplash

Most people have no purpose because they have no conflict in life their life.

Sure, they may have plenty problems, but no meaningful challenges that force them to grow.

Society isn’t set up to help you achieve a meaningful life. Rather than engaging in hard tasks, most people:

  • Scroll their addictive social media
  • Watch corporate-controlled news
  • Engage in the current moral outrage trend
  • Binging on sugary junk food (or Netflix)

It’s no wonder so many people feel empty and depressed. Engaging in activities like these — doing what everyone else is doing — forces us to play small.

Anything that requires us to get uncomfortable, stretch our current abilities, or challenges our narrative feels unbearable.

The only way to have purpose in life is to do hard things. To choose a worthy goal in life, face the obstacles that come with it, and overcome them.

Comfort kills purpose.

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Kyle Chastain
Kyle Chastain

Written by Kyle Chastain

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