Question
What is meaning of life?
Quick Answer
No one else can define what your life means — this is your responsibility alone.
Meaning of life is a concept in personal epistemology: No one else can define what your life means — this is your responsibility alone.
Example: You have spent years building a career that others admire — the title, the salary, the trajectory. But on a quiet evening you feel hollow, because the meaning was inherited, not constructed. You borrowed your parents' definition of success, your industry's definition of impact, your culture's definition of a life well-lived. None of it is yours. The moment you recognize this, you face a choice: continue performing someone else's meaning, or accept the weight of constructing your own.
This concept is part of Phase 75 (Existential Navigation) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for existential navigation.
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