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Living By Purpose — How To Find Your Meaning In Life

Noah Merriby
17 min readOct 30, 2019

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“ He who was a why to live can bare almost any how. “

- Friedrich Nietzsche

But, how can we bare any how when no, meaning related answer, is endowed?

We as human beings need a reason in life, a meaning beyond the scope of life and death. Thinking about what will happen after we depart from this world, we tend to ask ourselves, why are we in this world to begin with if we are destined to leave this world insignificantly? A question that has long been hanging in a silent echo-chamber… What is the reason behind our mere existence?

When we ask a question, we do so because we want to turn uncertainty, ambivalence or ambiguity into a logical structural answer. But what happens when no answer is to be found?

A more complexly emphasized question is, what happens when there is an infinite number of answers? We fall into the void of uncertainty.

One of the fundamental human needs rests upon certainty. Hofstede’s cross-cultural dimensions theory, scrutinizes the dimensional impact of “ uncertainty avoidance “ as a crucially displayed cultural mechanism that predicates society’s contrivance.

When silence remains, actions would become useless. It would be detrimental to dwell upon a situation that we can not change…

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Noah Merriby
Noah Merriby

Written by Noah Merriby

Best-Selling Author, Mentor, and Passionate Instructor who taught more than 100,000 students.

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