The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs: Meaning

When our lives feel meaningful we are energized and focused. We need meaning, and when we don’t find it we make it if we can.

In this video I explore what goes wrong when we try to meet our primal need for meaning in ways that injure others and us too. And also the dangers of not having enough of a sense of meaning.

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Video highlights:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 We live in times in which many people feel meaningless
01:32 Meaning: the holy search for happiness
02:53 The consequence of the drive to ‘be happy’
04:10 Making idols of demons
05:20 The paradox of a search for meaning
07:03 Serving but not subservient
08:40 Meaning or excitement?: How do we differentiate?
10:50 Meaning making
12:15 Serving a higher need
13:38 ’Nothing really matters’
15:05 What I’ve tried to do in this series on the dark side of your emotional needs
16:47 How the need for meaning can be subverted badly and damage lives
18:46 Why looking for meaning in the wrong places causes problems
19:19 Neglecting more meaningful parts of life
20:06 When the price of meaning is too high
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