When employees are consumed by their day-to-day tasks, work can start to feel routine and unfulfilling, which often leads to decreased motivation and performance and can eventually impact overall ...

That’s a sentiment I hear every single day in my career coaching practice. Many clients talk about their jobs as “fine enough” but say that they end work days feeling flat and empty. They describe ...

“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” —Viktor Frankl Creating meaning is a learnable skill that depends on the objects of our focus. Focusing on unimportant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many traditional sources of meaning, such as religious faith and community, have been in decline for decades, creating a ...

How often do we stop to think about the meaning of life? If you’re like me, probably not much. Even though I may feel a vague sense of anxiety around how my life is unfolding and the inevitability of ...

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Are there things that you do in certain settings, at particular times, that evoke a feeling and remind you of what is important? When I step up to bat in softball, I tap the bat twice just past the ...

How does meaning arise from matter? This is Part 2 of a four-part series exploring how the brain generates meaning. In Part 1, I argued that meaning emerges from relations among neural patterns, ...