Meaning often enters through service rather than self-importance.

Self-importance is a closed loop, since everything it produces feeds back to the same place. Service opens the loop by putting the point of the work outside you, which is what allows it to register as meaningful rather than as another item of self-maintenance. The mechanism is quite simple and easy to miss.

Do one thing this week whose entire benefit goes to someone else. Notice how it lands compared to something you did for your own advancement.