TY - JOUR AU - Nistor, Mihai PY - 2023/04/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Why Finding Purpose is so Hard Today JF - New Trends in Psychology JA - NTP VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/NTP/article/view/2272 SP - 84-87 AB - <p>Life is an amalgam of events, if we don’t register in these, then we see life only in black and<br>white. Why are goals important in the first place? For the simple fact that it defines the mission for<br>which we have taken up from the heavenly world and must carry out (or not) in the material world. The<br>“sense of purpose” is like a muscle, once trained it causes you happiness without being dependent on<br>other aspects such as motivation which is temporary. I know depressed people, and their problems were<br>not necessarily related to the fact that society is hurting them, but to the fact that they are hurting<br>themselves because they feel that they don’t find their place in life. Having goals detaches us very<br>loosely from sadness and boredom, because the mind is no longer preoccupied with dissecting the<br>moments that can provoke cortisol and the mind is much more focused on fulfilling the needs that lead<br>closer and closer to achieving the goal. Lots of people add the excuse that they need motivation to start<br>a goal which in my view shouldn’t be relied on so much.</p> ER -