Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life

    2. Who Is This Course For?

    3. Course Overview

    4. Course Syllabus

    1. Welcome to Week 1

    2. A Story: Nietzsche's Walking Stick

    3. Who Am I?

    4. What Do I Value?

    5. 7 Questions Exercise Introduction

    6. How do you want to be remembered?

    7. The Headstone Test Exercise Introduction

    8. Purpose: A central, self-organizing life aim

    9. The 2500 year old MRI

    10. More than "Grazing Animals"

    11. Loving-Kindness Meditation Practice

    12. Week 1 Related Readings (Optional)

    1. Welcome to Week 2

    2. A Story: 2001 A Space Odyssey

    3. Learning about Purpose from Camus, Sartre, and Nietzsche

    4. A Story: Albert Camus

    5. What kind of cook are you?

    6. The Curious Camel

    7. A Story: Obuntu

    8. Purposeful: Be, Do, and Action Goals

    9. Let's meet a few purposeful people

    10. Identifying your Be, Do, and Action Goals

    11. Week 2 Related Readings (Optional)

    1. Why Purpose Works: Psychological Pathway

    2. What is post-traumatic growth? What role does it play in living a purposeful life?

    3. Why Purpose Works: Behavioral Pathway

    4. The Cookie Study

    5. Looking Ahead

    6. Why Purpose Works: Biological Pathway

    7. Week 3 Related Readings (Optional)

    1. How Purpose Works: College & Military

    2. Living with Purpose as a Student, with Jim Loehr

    3. How Purpose Works: Work & Workplaces

    4. How Purpose Works: Aging & Retirement

    5. How Purpose Works: Family & Community

    6. Directions for Discussion Prompts

    7. Vic's Story

    8. Week 4 Related Readings (Optional)

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