How Your Deepest Desire is Also The Source of Your Deepest Conflict

Our deepest human desire is to cultivate meaning in our lives.

Our deepest human need is to survive.

This is the source of our deepest conflict.

Our brains are survival machines and nothing more. They’re designed to keep us alive.

As part of this hard-wiring, we’re also efficiency machines.

Our brains seek the path of least resistance.

It’s a primal desire to conserve calories.

The more efficient something is, the less fuel it burns. Anything that causes fear or discomfort burns more calories and, as such, needs to be avoided.

But, beyond our brains is an intrinsic gravitational pull towards meaning.

We desperately want our experiences, and in turn, our lives to mean something.

I believe we all have a calling.

It’s the song that sings within our souls.

As a child, it sang louder; as an adult, it’s merely a whisper.

But it’s never gone.

I believe we cultivate meaning in our lives when we pursue our calling.