SFS Minute 957: Meaning

This week, we're talking about optimizing your life and whether it can go too far. For example, you can't optimize your way into one thing, and we'll tell you what it is. Optimizing is great at improving efficiency. It helps you get more done and waste less time with better systems. But it does not create—I'll tell you what it doesn't—right after this. Meaning. It does not create meaning. There are great things about better systems, but we can't do that without something at the very base of it. We can optimize our schedule, our calendar, and our workflow and make everything run smoothly, but there is still something missing, and that is meaning. It doesn't come from inefficiency or efficiency. It comes from connection, purpose, relationships, and doing something that is more important than just us.