Why We Seek Meaning in Life

“...the human need for meaning reaches into the far recesses of our life and ensures that eventually nothing is left blank. We adorn, embellish, categorise, make ladders of hierarchy out of everything.” - Santosh Desai on LinkedIn

INSIGHT
Why is the human need for meaning so compulsive? After his experiences in a Nazi death camp, Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl realised it was essential for our spiritual survival. Frankl's theory holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

Transitions

“There's no one fish saying, “Hey, I want everyone to be about five inches away from someone else, and we're going to have this shape”. That is physicist Dr Neil Johnson, describing transitions in nature such as in a flock of birds or a school of fish.

INSIGHT
Could the bunch of variables in our lives such as relationships, resources and contexts have a similar mysterious trigger in shaping human transitions?