Home / The Point of Life (June 2026)

In interviews, I often ask people how they define success. They almost always respond with, "...in life or business?" and I find that I much prefer the answers about life.

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about this question and trying to come up with specific answers. However, as I've gotten older, I've noticed that my answers keep changing along the way.

Today, my copout answer if people ask me this question in return, is repeating the quote, "If there was a point to life, we wouldn't be free." However, my real answer, at least in this chapter of my life, is that the point of life is to do whatever feels most true in the moment.

I like this answer because it gives me wiggle room to change. When I was little the point was to learn skills, then explore, then help people, then learn about myself, then have fun, and now it's family and balance.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse has long been one of my favorite books. I love how short and simple the book is, but at a deeper level, I love how great of a job it does at portraying this particular approach to living life.