The Secret to Living a Meaningful Life

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  • hasSubject Project Management
  • hasHighlight
    • Personal Projects Analysis: meaning, manageability, connection (to others), negative emotions and positive emotions.
    • free traits: not in our nature, but can still express them if the time/project/motivation is right
    • Choose the right projects, and approach them in the right way, and you can make your life richer and more enjoyable.
    • romantic partners tend to be happier together if they share some of the same personal projects
    • "concept matching": find metaphoric parallels between the stalled project and something you know how to succeed at
    • lives are governed by three forces:
      • biogenic
      • sociogenic (how we were raised; culture; the company we keep)
      • idiogenic (projects and free traits)
    • “Whereas contexts embed us, projects pull us forward into new possibilities,”