Frankl's the reason why I got into this field, and I mention his work in all my academic talks and articles. In a longer talk, for sure, I would talk about his work. For anyone else reading this, the first half of Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is as inspiring and moving as human expression gets.

Purpose = What we do ,I agree - My definition: The unique thing you do for others. The key is others. Others is where the significance comes into play. The problem, that is not what we are taught. We are taught to get yours first and we usually never can quite scratch that itch so we never get to the significance part.

That was seriously inspiring! Thank you Michael Steger, for putting words to what I've been trying to understand.

I love it! give others meaning will not only give them meaning, but also yourself! I love his humor, sharing laughter is enough of a reason to live

BE WITH THE ONE!! .... Love Being alive & creating music!!!

Good insights. It seems to be a balance between making the most of "the moment" while still building for the bigger picture. But if we can combine these both together in our actions, being alive in the moment doing them while also connecting to the larger meaning, that would seem to be as good as it can gets.

Love the zest and humor! Whatt a great speaker! Many thanks, Mike. Yo are a great story-teller, REAL stories of life and love and character strenghts.

I feel like there is something so missing about this talk, what about the poor, disabled, diseased, depressed, orphan, refugee, unaided and un-helped? Why are we happy to render their lives meaningless. Making meaning for ourselves only works for the rich and comfortable. This seems, without remotely meaning to be, immensely patronising to people who are in suffering in circumstances beyond their control.

tenderness, humour & truth. thank you Michael Steger / TEDxCSU

Good job. IMO others who listen for a minute and make a judgement, really miss out on your message.

I think what give way to meaning is stability, this would be housing, having money to survive and thrive, stable relationships, stable childhood relationships is helpful.

Beautiful message. ❤️

why they keep using titles like that if they dont know the answers?.at the end of the speech they say the same thing. maybe the meaning of this or the meaning of that is....please dont do that!

Interesting n informative talk. Persistence ! Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

Brilliant presentation and profound content!

This was incredibly beautiful and inspiring. Thankyou sir

We all just need to be as sure as Michael Steger and build our own clam thing.

Beautiful message. Close to my ❤️

Thank you Michael for presenting a topic very few people dare to talk about. I found my answers in the book You Were Born For a Reason by Kentetsu Takamori. I guess when the pain is too intense to go on living, people need to have someone hold their hands and walk together towards what never betrays at the end. Thank you.

Great video! Matthew Kelly talks about this as well. Would love to see you interview him.

great, i love your story.Thanks..

me : i wanna find a what makes life meaningful video : okay listen up me : 0.0 video : i cant tell you how to find meaning in life

Great talk! Lots to take away from this!

Interesting... but there is so much more to discover and to become...

A lot of these questions could be improved by asking whether we could, rather than what he was doing which involved "trying" and so and so fourth.

Great....I do love a story :)

REGRABBING LIFE

Since we all will die and for those who agree with me that dead is dead and even if reincarnation is true, since no one i know incuding myself, and only Shirley Maclain seems to be the one who has detailed memories of past lives and has made millions on her belief of this. for most of us, reincarnation does not matter, any 'lessons' learned in this life are forgotten so what is the pt of learning lessons that are forgotten. For me the life we live that ends the best is to have nice smooth life.

"What exactly were you trying to accomplish?" "I was trying to make a girl fall in love with me" "Did it work?" "No" "So everything was for nothing?" "Yes" "Then why are you smiling?" "Because i just realised something" "What is it?" "That life is a pathetic joke that we take way too seriously"

Is this a framework around the work of Victor Frankl? We certainly do not need money to create. It is a human condition to create by default. The most true meaning of life is to express and create love and happiness with others.

Greetings! I wish I could have a meaningful life! In SHA Allah!

I don't think we have to reference Viktor Frankl every time we talk about meaningful living any more than we have to reference George Washington every time we mention the US of A!

All will be nothing once dead, does not matter how wonderful or how horrible are 'lives' go...so really...it does not matter if one lives one whose dreams all come true, or one spends this 'live' unjustly spent in constant state of torture. So what...it ends...the most wonderful the more horrific, tell me WHY is one better than the other. If death is death aka NOTHING...why bother...we are all dead already...what we feel now let it be fun, let it be joyfilled but really it does not matter.

awesome

once you spend the time you're never going to get it back

Very good!

The cuts to the audience and the person at the dry erase board were meaningless.

Well that was depressing - 65 yrs old, no family, no job or objectives. Live while you are young, there is no worse way to die than through old age; your friends die, your body rots, your brain fades and nothing is new. Bye.

starting the video now. If he says "family", I'll scream.

All I hear is a lot of words and no real meaning, ironically enough.

Hi spectators Plz turn down your applause and lughter noise. You are in learning episode

He looks like my teacher and my teachers name is MR. STEGER. !!

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You are right. We don't need to mention Washington every time we talk about the USA. But we need to mention Washington every time we talk about the first President of the USA

This literally said nearly nothing about what makes life meaningful. One tiny bit about family and friends, that old chestnut. It had no substance at all. He frickin' talked about what meaning was. God the same old empty platitudes.

Are we just going to ignore his trousers?

His voice contradicts the story about the girl.

taking out pride. Following Jesus teachings.

Is Death a Hazard? (9:20) Perhaps we do not understand death enough yet to label it as a hazard. People who have died and come back to life (NDE experiencers) say that when the body is no longer alive their experience becomes one of total peace, freedom and love. If living on earth requires that we depend upon countless things that litter the planet, why is longevity valued so highly and death viewed as a negative or hazardous outcome. Perhaps death is a friend that can help us to end human suffering and aid with restoring balance to our overtaxed planet. Perhaps we might consider reframing the way we view death to allow the explorations of death with dignity and death as a service to Earth and humanity.

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"not creepy but persistent." Well, I'm already doing it wrong... =P

Man's search for meaning

Why tho, we r all dying at the end, I just don’t get it so what if we made a difference and so what if we didn’t. When the person dies it’s not going to matter anyway. I wanna get it but I just don’t.

Hmmmm. I do find you asking good questions, it's like a start of a meaningful conversation - but you are obviously talking around the whole issue without any conclusion; having kids, also, methinks that makes it even harder for you, as for me. to do much real, careful searching or introspection. You're nice enough, and come across as very likeable, but: you're just not there yet. No surprise there, right? Thank you for the pleasant video, though - you are spot on with the observation that meaning ultimately MUST include action of some kind. Even 'close, not quite there yet' action is truly appreciated, by me: join the ranks with Aristotle, and Newton, and others, whose ideas, even while 'not quite there yet' are still valuable contributions to . . . maybe call it 'the march of human knowlledge progress'? Well. . . no, that's a bit clumsy. Just: thanks.

Unable to understand. So many people are laughing!

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My life is not meaningful. I can't wait until it ends. You just work all the damned time, the yard, the house, the job, the other job, the pets, it's all work. Meaningful is contributing something that changes an event for the better. No one contributes or changes the world for the better except a handful of people. We are a resilient species and move on after someone dies then we work, work, work. Pointless to think any one has a meaningful life.

Where do you go when your purpose becomes meaningless?

Meaningful= Emmy A in I in girl friend you love

Talking about meaning in life and no mention of Viktor Frankl's work? Well Mr Steger?????

Similar to what Jesus taught except he omits the transcendent . Omitting relationship with the divine makes life mostly futile. Philosophers figured this out over 100 years ago. Kierkegaard believed Jesus and wrote about love. Sartre did not believe and spent time in his final years visiting prostitutes. I believe God rewards those who seek him and gives us power to love and give as this speaker teaches. (Author of "Flourish: A Guide to Your Growth…)

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This is nothing new... Erich Fromm's books _The Sane Society, Escape From Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and the Art Of Being, just to name a few, are the most profound books ever written. Dr. Fromm deals not only on aspects of our being that impair our emotional and psychological creative potential, but he also deals with the socio economic forces that are dehumanizing, unjust, dangerous, insane, and therefore an affront to the evolution of humanity. You can talk all you want about meaning but no amount of it will make a difference as long as we conveniently leave out the present existential social economic realities that affect us directly. Capitalism, as we know it, is akin to a cult in which we are its members who follow blindly without question hence without knowing it's a cult. Nor are we aware of the depth of its humanizing forces.With all due respect to Steger and many motivational speaker like Tony and Mel Robbins, they have this proclivity, which upsets me to no end, to put the onus on the person and leave out the harsh realities facing so many people like those JD Vance mentions in his book "Hillbilly Elegy: a memoir of a family in crisis. Another book is by renowned sociologist Dr. Arlie Hochschild "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right". No amount of lectures on "meaning" is going to help them!! Here is meaning for you: get mad *AS HELL* and tell all those in office that if they don't deal with the real concerns affecting American people, there will be hell to pay!! The Tea Partiers and those who follow Trump and despite their underlying racism and ignorance, the existential crisis they are facing right now is economic and the loss of MEANINGFUL fucking jobs!!! They want to live a dignified life but those in power don't give a rat's ass and the corporate state is the worse offender. And where is TED on this? Here is how we deceive ourselves.... _Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking process attempts to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of logic and plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life. This false map is not repressed. What is repressed is the knowledge of reality, the knowledge of what is true. If we ask, then: What is unconscious? the answer must be: Aside from irrational passions, almost the whole of knowledge of reality. _*_The unconscious is basically determined by society, which produces irrational passions and provides its members with various kinds of fiction and thus forces the truth to become the prisoner of the alleged rationality_*_._ Fromm, Erich. To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts) (p. 98). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

So, he modeled his life after the LAME John Cusack movies, and not the good ones, like TAPEHEADS.

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He says he can't tell us what meaning/purpose our lives should have but he really does tell us. He tells us our purpose in life is to find something to do that will substitute for real meaning/purpose. He speaks of life as a gift but then he ignores the concept of a giver. He shows us some squiggly lines and tricks us into seeing it as a camel. Similarly, he tries to trick us into seeing real meaning and purpose through squiggly references to life as a gift, as precious, as connected in some overarching way to others. You can't misspent moments unless there is a right way to live your moments. If there is no Creator, then everything he recommends is self deception. And if we cannot deceive ourselves, then seeking a Creator is our only hope.

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He's lying. It's hot sex.

It is God who determines our life’s purpose as he creates us and owns all that exists. Allah says: I have not created Jinn or man except that they worship me. Study Islam and stop living a life steeped in doubt.

Why don’t you drink more water before your speech?

What a waste of time this was!!!

Well nothing makes life meaningfull

SPOILER ALERT if you really want to know about the meaning of life, don't watch this shallow BS.

Next time, please iron your shirt. Thank you.