Hi, Glen - very interesting post about purpose.

I work with others in mid-late life helping them determine their purpose (goals+passions+values) based primarily on the work of Richard Leider and a few others from the positive psychology area.

Your thoughts are spot-on regarding the benefits and importance of this to each of us.  However, several things in our modern technological world combine to make this more difficult in some ways:

1)  Too many choices - technology and digital connections abound, resulting in a much greater general awareness of all that the world holds than I had when making my original career choices.

2)  Too much Flux - due to that same technology and the unsettled geopolitical and global economics situations, change on many fronts is happening at a much faster and more impacting rate than previously.

3)  Change and Choices combine to make for a volatile environment in which to discern our true purpose, loosely defined as why we get up in the morning or what truly moves us.

This is both a challenging and an unsettled time for self-exploration and self-discovery.  Appreciate your work in this area:)

John