Live a Meaningful Life | Mastering Life

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

We're talking today and then we're going to carry on our previous series. But today I want to talk about having a meaningful life. A meaning who here would like a meaningful life. Unbelievable. Me too. Now a meaningful life is going to be the key to fulfillment and happiness. It's a really good thing to have a meaningful life. And I speak to very very many people and I say, "Tell me about your life. I say, "Tell me about your life. Do you love your job?" And they're like, "Well, not really. I'm I'm just doing whatever job I could find to pay off my college debt." So I say, "Yeah, but did you gain from your degree?" And they were like, "Well, no. When I was 18, I didn't really know what I wanted to study. I just studied international relations and politics and business what economics but I didn't really go I just smoked weed all day really and tried to get laid and I didn't enjoy the degree that much so now I'm spending my late that much so now I'm spending my late 20s doing a job that I don't want to do in order to pay off a degree that I never going to use and I'm like that's not well thought out at all is it that's a ridiculous thing so I say, "Okay, so what do you do now?" I say, "You know, I get up. I go to a job that I don't, you know, 9 to6, whatever. It's quite stressful." Do you really look up to and appreciate and admire the people you work with? Well, not so much. There's one guy, he seems

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4. 9:24nice be nice to yourself be nice to other people I guarantee you'll have a better…
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6. 15:33How often do you say to yourself, I really should do X, but you don't. I…
7. 18:38life because the definition of success is not reaching my goals because my goals might be…
8. 21:42least give 10 to 20% of your money to make the world a better place. Yes.…
9. 24:47why I get up. And people say to me, "Well, I want to sleep less, Rabbi.…
10. 27:48fame not to build his ego but to build the world and people around him then…

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