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On Finding Your Purpose

Elizabeth Day · 16 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Purpose is not an achievement or end goal but what a person brings to whatever they do.

    Their wordsPurpose is not necessarily what you do. It’s what you bring to what you do.

  2. Our reading

    Finding one’s purpose is less a discovery of something new than an uncovering of something already there.

    Their wordsIn my experience, locating one’s purpose is less an act of discovery (going in search of new lands) and much more an act of uncovering (revealing a truth that is already there) or recovering (reclaiming a quality that might have been lost or obscured during life’s many transitions).

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