Yet another study has found that people with a strong purpose in life have less heart disease and are much less likely to die early.
Over the last decade, research into “life’s purpose” as a modifiable lifestyle factor – like exercise, diet, smoking and drinking booze – has bloomed.
In other words, getting a purpose in life is something you can take up – as a preventative health measure – or abandon.
This might smack of “positive psychology” mumbo-jumbo.
But it’s not.
More than mindfulness
It runs a lot deeper than being mindful when washing the dishes – or saying a dozen affirmations before going into a sales meeting.
It’s about coming up with a make-do response to the big unanswerable questions – without having to go through a head-wrecking discussion.
