Is there any meaning, any purpose to life? What is the true path? Religion? Science? The arts, sports, parenting, helping others, yourself, collecting stuff, happiness, action, inaction or something entirely different? What on Earth - or elsewhere - could be the meaning of all this?
In this podcast I cover what the meaning of life could be. I also cover your one, main asset as a human being - your ability to inspire meaning in life… for yourself and for others.
As with any ability or skill, it needs exercising. And in this podcast I propose a project for you: Do at least one action every day for a month that inspires real meaning in your life or someone else’s life.
I will keep a running record here of the most meaningful acts I do every day until 2019-01-07:
2018-12-07 - Released this podcast
2018-12-08 - Role-Playing session with 7 kids (15-19 years)
2018-12-09 - Playing chess with Jonatan, significantly improving his game
2018-12-10 - Helping Jonatan decide highschool path, helping OsloMet structure their IT department
2018-12-11 - Sick with a cold but still wrote a short story for OsloMet depicting a possible future as a student at the university
2018-12-12 - Still sick but did some meaningful stuff with the Innovation Garage geniuses (for an upcoming Kickstarter campaign)
2018-12-13 - Helped a friend get through a tough spot in life
2018-12-14 - Spent two hours full on spreading jokes to people
2018-12-15 - Cuddled with Aleksander for hours (my 4th son, 2½ years old)
2018-12-16 - Fun role-playing session with Niklas & Jonatan
2018-12-17 - Held a motivational seminar for 30 people at Sykehuspartner, covering many of the elements from the OnePageBooks
2018-12-18 - Two inspirational interviews, exploring ways to help the two
2018-12-19 - Inpirational day with the geniuses in the Innovation Garage. Handing over the leadership of the Garage to another genius within Dualog
2018-12-20 - Helping create a strategic Business Forum within Dualog
2018-12-21 - Buying gifts and distributing gifts
2018-12-22 - Reading an inspirational book I got as a Christmas gift from Morten (CEO Dualog), “The hunt for the good story”
2018-12-23 - Meeting Anette’s family in Fredrikstad, really nice, meaningful people
2018-12-24 - Christmas Eve in Fredrikstad with Anette’s family. Valuable family time
2018-12-25 - Reading up on the Paranoia RPG, will play this amazing Role-Playing Game with the kids after Christmas
2018-12-26 - More reading up on Paranoia
2018-12-27 - Revamping my laptop setup, upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10, trying out Pangoterm and other new tools
2018-12-28 - Most people down with the flu, me included. More tinkering with my computer setup
2018-12-29 - Floored with the flu, watching some inspirational movies
2018-12-30 - Kick-starting a new wave of meaning for me by getting a travel case for my big telescope, boosting my astronomy interest
2018-12-31 - Found an amazing quote from Richard Feynman, in perfect alignment with my podcast here: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.” This should serve well as a new years resolution for us all :-)
2019-01-01 - Playing Munckin with Niklas & Jonatan, creating RPG stuff, creating some essential routines for the HP-41 calculator
2019-01-02 - Created a new podcast episode on “the value of improvisation in Role-Playing Games”. Will publish tomorrow
2019-01-03 - Published a new podcast
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