Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Name Your Mattering Project

Daily Chase #234

Apr 07, 2026
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There’s a question underneath all the other questions.

Not: What do you want to do with your life? Not: What are you good at? Not even: What makes you happy?

The deeper question — the one philosopher Rebecca Goldstein has spent decades excavating — is this: What are you using to justify your own existence to yourself?

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