Turns out, even happiness isn’t even a foolproof strategy for the good life. Sure, technically your life might be really good if you’re happy, but it will still be shallow. That’s because happy people ...

There’s a phenomenon that affects astronauts when they travel into space and look back at the Earth, called the overview effect. “It’s reportedly a cognitive shift that occurs that’s to do with ...

In Victor Frankl’s famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning, a section called “The Existential Vacuum” claims that “the existential vacuum is a widespread phenomenon of the twentieth century." He ...

Imagine two people yearning to find the meaning of life. They each go and spend a decade researching, asking experts, and contemplating to find the answer. The first person returns ashen-faced and ...

In a reply to a recent post I published on death and the meaning of life, a reader identified as Anonymous wrote, among other things, "I think life is meaningless in a vacuum. One imposes value upon ...

Have you ever felt that things are meaningless? The notion that things are devoid of meaning, no matter how small, can be called nihilism. Nihilism is a philosophy, but according to writer Nolen Gertz ...