These Week's Topic: How To Live And The Meaning Of Life

Lessons from historians, philosophers, and scientists on the toughest human questions

Hello Substackers,

This week we’ll be examining the most difficult human questions:

• How one should live?

• What’s the meaning of life?

For the first question, we’ll leave it to great historians. After all, their entire discipline involves studying the lives of those who came before. So, they’re an untapped resource of wisdom on the subject. We’ll examine that Tuesday:

Thursday we’ll tackle one of the most challenging questions people never get tired of asking: what’s the meaning of life? We’ll leave this to philosophy and science. By the way, like life, the conclusion isn’t what I’d expected. Namely, there’s a better thing to do instead of asking about the meaning of life.