Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no sense of purpose. Help.

Re:Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no ... by guylhem on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:00PM (#1992942)

Doing is easy. Finding out what you want to do is not - at least not for me.

It also seems you are self-deprecating. You must have some value - you were not paid for doing nothing!

But maybe what was found valuable in you by corporate america differs from what you define as a value.

Have you tried reading philosophy? It helped me. If philosophy is not your thing you can try more accessible literature. My biased suggestion would be Atlas Shrugged.

I would also suggest trying to define your life values (what's important for you?) and following that, defining your life goals (where do you want to make a chance?) - then it's "just" a matter of implementation.

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Re:Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no ... by groaner on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:23PM (#1993019)

Thanks. I just finished the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius not too long ago, and it was sobering but refreshing.

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Re:Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no ... by guylhem on Friday December 10, 2010 @05:08PM (#1993385)

I'd rather suggest Nietszche or Atlas Shrugged because they are better remedies against actual nihilism IMHO. But whatever you read, if you find some value in it - keep going !

Try lesswrong and transhumanist websites if that's your thing. Or anything else - it's your tastes that matters.

As many others pointed in the thread, anomie is best fought if you create your own meaning. To me, this meant defining my own values first.

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