“‘What For?’: A Question to Live By”

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you want to maximize your success and happiness, you must engage purposefully in all of the key areas of life (career, romance, friendships, recreation). Asking the question “what for?“ is key to accomplishing this aim. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Craig and Jon discuss how “what for?” focuses your mind on your goals and on how best to achieve them. They also talk about how certain types of answers to this question can lead one astray. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subscribe in</span> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophy-for-flourishing/id1516846670"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple Podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2ygYLi3sTed0DkRWzUb95C"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Spotify</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or wherever you’re listening right now.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also check out: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Purpose Comes from Reason, Not Religion” by Craig Biddle:</span> <a href= "https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2019/05/purpose-comes-from-reason-not-religion/"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2019/05/purpose-comes-from-reason-not-religion/</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Purpose, Value Hierarchies, and Happiness” by Craig Biddle:</span> <a href= "https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2014/05/purpose-value-hierarchies-happiness/"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2014/05/purpose-value-hierarchies-happiness/</span></a></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Atlas Shrugged</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Ayn Rand:</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3aRYGZj"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://amzn.to/3aRYGZj</span></a></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Robert Tracinski, reviewed by Andrew