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We live in a time of the answers. Enter your question in a search engine or a AI chat bot and you will receive an immediate, logical and high-quality answer. But there is a question that no technology can answer for you: What does life mean? And strangely, the answer is simple. I once saw it on a postcard in a café in Kathmandu: the meaning of life is whatever you want.
Since then I have devoted myself to unpacking science – to understand where it really comes from. Is it a river state? Well -being? Habits? Goals? Fail? Resistance? Fun?
What do we regret most?
Perhaps a better starting point is to ask: what meaning affects?
In the Book Top 5 regret of the dying, the palliative nurse Bronnie Ware catches the reflections of people in their last days – if the truth can no longer be hidden. The top regret:
- I wish I had the courage to live a life that is loyal to me, not life that others expected from me.
- I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
- I wish I had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish I would have been happier.
I think I live that at the end of an emotional spectrum. At the other end is fulfillment – the feeling that life is useful, resonant and coherent. Pain from the past, which has been heated is currently heated. Can we outsource the work, courage and happiness to AI?
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Will abundance lead to emptiness?
Can AI and robotics automate every activity in such a way that hard work becomes optional? Elon Musk thinks that. He predicts that our future challenge will not be productivity, but the fulfillment of people. Without adversity and longing, an abundance of everything leads us to the emotional breakdown – or worse in the realm of narcissistic pleasure, the stars of our own digital realities?
Or will we do what people always do – create a challenge, strive, compete, compete and dream great? Even if we are monkeys in glass cages, under the watchful view of a superintelligent “God” who punishes misconduct, rewarded and fights us with algorithmic precision? Well, many of us like rules and limits. Would I prefer an AI overlord of the faulty human government? Perhaps. Could Ai herald a great reset, re -spice up the prosperity and distribute resources more efficiently? Possibly. Will it be honored – or invite, even force everyone to make a contribution? (I asked Chatgpt what replied that the compulsion would only be necessary if we were exposed to existential threats.)
What makes the trip worth it?
Whatever the future looks like, the central challenge remains: the trip feels worthwhile. Make sure what we do is important – if only for ourselves.
For the majority of history, religion, kings, nations, communities and families have prescribed our values. There was no need to ask deep questions, especially if the main value was survival. But now we have to ask questions like: What is important to me? What brings me fulfillment? Which inheritance do I want to leave?
The purpose can feel terrific, but the values ​​are deeply rooted – often bent under the surface of our consciousness, which are revealed in moments of stress or joy. If you clarify your values, you can start creating your own spiritual practice.
How do you put values ​​into practice?
Love fitness? Stretch at dawn, run at sunset and build your life around it. Value quality? Serve others, act with compassion and report voluntarily weekly. Appreciate peace? Meditate, teach yoga and campaign to end wars.
Life in the agreement with its values ​​creates meaning, especially if it is difficult. We need resistance. We need positive stress. Nothing is more satisfactory than to see how far we have come: how we are now better dealing with pressure than a younger version of ourselves or how we have restored the balance after chaos and disorder.
In my workshops, I ask people what the proudest they are for last year. The answers are never about ease. It is about resistance – overcoming diseases, support from relatives, to give up the crotching of stretch goals or a simple rejection.
What is the hero's journey today?
We don't have to be perfect. But we have to try, fail and try again. This is the hero's journey: leave the comfort zone, collect allies, gain skills, let yourself be put down and rise again. We conquer the kite and return home. This trip makes sense.
AI can't give us that. It can be a tool, but we still need championship, growth, community and courage.
Yes, some may be left behind – immersed in virtual realities, fed by robots and present in Gamified Plasma dreams. A real matrix. But there is another option: we define our values ​​and AI helps us find challenges where we can still make a difference. It suggests allies. It takes us for the purpose. And like every good guide, it lets us stumble.
Relatives: Would you like to find your purpose? Stop looking for it. Start living with it.
Where do we start?
We do something valuable – whether it is a goal to be a service or love someone.
We work less. We live authentically. We stay connected to friends. We speak our truth. We allow happiness, but it starts with values. Because if you do not choose them consciously, take them unconsciously, be it out of consumer culture, influencers or convenience – and they will feel empty.
So discover your values. Practice them. Build resilience. Dream big. Pull off the stars – and with the help of superintelligence you could arrive there.