If your true purpose involves making a real difference in the world, find a meaningful problem and approach it head on. Optimize for it. If you’re spending a good chunk of your energy optimizing for other things (e.g. money or status), or if there’s a persistent knot in your stomach, then reconsider your purpose. If you find yourself becoming repeatedly distracted by success metrics that are not well aligned with what you’re telling yourself you want in life, it is time to stop and think.

Comic by internet humorist Drew