on discovering my personal mission, question 13

Life on Purpose: 15 Questions to Discover Your Personal Mission

Question 13: What causes do you strongly believe in? Connect with?

This is not an easy question, if only because I’ve been focussed on my own needs for so much of my life that I have not developed strong commitments to “causes.” But I’d say my strongest commitment is to “human flourishing.” This means I am committed to those things that promote human flourishing, and I’d say the strength of my commitments (to various causes) lies in the immediacy of their impact on individual human lives. So, while I am committed to environmental causes, to reducing my own footprint, etc., I am more committed to economic equality (or at least to the provision of some minimal level of economic security that permits one to have cares, concerns, outside of survival).