Roll On: Finding Purpose

If you don't know what your purpose is, I can't tell you what your purpose is; you have to discover that for yourself. And that journey of self-discovery requires you to look inward, also in a rigorous and objective way, to try to figure out what it is about who you are that a) makes you uniquely you and b) that you feel inspired to uniquely express.

When you build that into a habit where being of service to other people in a selfless way is a reflex rather than a burden or an obligation, that, in my experience, and what I've seen with other people, is probably the best way to set you on a trajectory that's going to connect you with some kind of purpose in your life.

Your life immediately becomes more meaningful when you're of service to others.

You can't control the insanity of the chaotic world; you can't control what other people are going to do; you can't control the news cycle. All you control is your reaction to all of that and how you comport yourself.

You can't destroy the dark thing, the evil thing. It can never be destroyed. The best you can do is cultivate enough light that you have a balance ... And that's not just within society; that's within yourself because we all have these dark thoughts ... That's just part of the human condition.

I think the larger problem is how entrenched we've become in those ideas, such that when we're presented with a counterfactual narrative, no matter how compelling that narrative, it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter. It's not going to move the needle in terms of how that person is seeing the world. Whether it's the Trump voter who can't be talked out of voting for Trump or the super liberal person who sees the world in a specific way, the idea that you're going to change these people's minds... We all know how difficult that is.

All you can control is yourself. The path forward is to be the best version of yourself so that you're equipped to handle all those other things that you cannot control.

It is weird that everything is political now. There used to be politics and everything else, but now there's nothing that isn't part and parcel of a political discussion.

Just because you have something in your life that's not functioning properly doesn't mean that you have to cast aside everything else and do something super drastic ... Those bold steps, although sexy, have ramifications for the other people in your life.

Mindfulness does not necessitate formal meditation per se, but mindfulness is certainly a byproduct of a formal meditation practice.

There is no unified source of 'truth' anymore; we're all self-selecting our information silos.

No one can tell you how you feel or how you're going to react to something—you have control over that.

That's what's so interesting—when you look at [Joe] Rogan... for a lot of people, especially young men, he's the most important media figure in their life.