Purpose, on the path of survival.

Purpose is more easily found on the path of survival than on the path of privilege.

When you “have to” work to survive, you are a far sharper observer of how the world really works. Because that experience is “lived”, not learnt in the classroom. You are clear what works for your survival, and what you’d absolutely change in your world to sustain it.

When you come from privilege, your life affords you choices. But these choices also create hesitation. You only want to try out things that you like, you always want the best results, you often want someone to give you a playbook to win easily. You want your curated experience of the world to continue. This rarely leads you to things you’d like to change “intensely”.

Other than a small set of geniuses, artistes, and prodigies, who find their purpose early in life, most of us discover it as we live and work.

When we work in the “have-to” survival mode, we have more reasons to want to change the status quo. The motivation to create change is “felt” - and real purpose comes way more easily and powerfully through what we feel than through a playbook.