No life purpose seems meaningful enough

[Basman]

20 hours ago, theleelajoker said:

To take some pressure of the whole thing re OP: a japanese women once talked about ikigai, and she said: "in the West, you take it so serious, you make it so big, this purpose thing. In Japan, we sometimes just use the model in a way of "what gets me out of bed TODAY?

Japanese are so conformist it makes me doubt they have any thoughts at all. 

If confucius was a monopoly man they would all be entrepreneurs and shit. 

[Oppositionless]

What we need is not more influencers, I agree with you on that, but more people helping others one on one. People want to make a bunch of YouTube videos , they end up being shallow and highly generalized much of the time , because they want fame, when they could help more by learning to do one on one work. That's my two cents.

[Leo Gura]

Working one on one requires the right personality type. You gotta be a people person.

I am much better at making videos than working one on one. It suites my personality better.

Edited 12 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Oppositionless]

@Leo Gura yeah but you also don't strike me as an influencer type . I'm referring to people who care more about clout than value.

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

@Leo Gura yeah but you also don't strike me as an influencer type . I'm referring to people who care more about clout than value.

Obviously that has never been my motivation.

[Miguel1]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Working one on one requires the right personality type. You gotta be a people person.

I am much better at making videos than working one on one. It suites my personality better.

Interesting angle.

I consider myself a people person but I don’t have the patience for one on one. I rather work a crowd, in real life.

I find one on one very time-consuming and inefficient for my personality type.

In a way, one on one works better for introverts.

[Leo Gura]

@Miguel1 Besides the introvert/extrovert dichtomy there is an additional people/things dichotomy.

For example, women tend to be interested in people while men are more interested in things and theoretical abstractions.

I am more interested in metaphysics than I am in people.

Coaches need to be interested in people. These are helper professions like nursing or therapy. That doesn't suit me because I need to build out my own ideas.

Edited 10 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Peo]

On 25.2.2026 at 9:28 AM, Something Funny said:

And then you are supposed to pick life purpose and be productive and do more of that. But what for? There is already too much. 

That is what we call a limiting belief and the scarce mindset like Leo talks about all the time. 

[Oppositionless]

People fascinate me. I lose a lot of productivity time just bouncing ideas off people . I want to be a coach because I can indulge in that while still advancing myself. Part of it is the helping them, but there's also a science experiment aspect to it. 

[Miguel1]

@Leo Gura Yes, makes sense. That’s what I intuited.

[Alex4]

It took me ten years to find my life purpose, and did Leo's course twice to find it. I still don’t fully know how to make it concrete, although I’m working on it. My advice is to try many different things and follow the thread of the ones you find you truly enjoy. And keep asking yourself, If I were a millionaire, what would I do every day without expecting anything in return? For me, that’s the key question.

You can see it’s vanilla advice and something that gets repeated a lot, but honestly there’s no other way around it, you just have to be very persistent.