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The Question That Asks You Back

What Frankl, Camus, Sartre, Ikigai, and the Science of Purpose Teach the Lost

I spent fifteen years sitting beside people who were dying, in a small hospice on the edge of Pune, and almost none of them asked me what life meant. They asked, instead, what their life had meant — a very different question, and the one this book is actually about. Here you'll meet Viktor Frankl, who found in a concentration camp that meaning survives where happiness cannot; Albert Camus, who insisted the universe owes us nothing and told us to imagine Sisyphus happy anyway; Jean-Paul Sartre, who said no blueprint is coming; and the researchers who've quietly shown, in Okinawa and in American retirement studies, that people with a reason to get up in the morning tend to live longer, steadier lives. I'm not offering you an answer. I'm offering you better questions, and a few frameworks sturdy enough to hold your own.