Purpose isn’t a noun you discover. It’s a verb you do, a little every day.

Treating purpose as an object means waiting for it to be handed over, usually by a moment of clarity that never arrives on schedule. It works the other way around. You do things, you notice which ones you would happily do again tomorrow, and the pattern that shows up over months is the closest thing to an answer anyone gets. Nobody figures this out by thinking harder in their room.

This week, do one small useful thing a day: help someone, make something, learn a piece of a skill. Keep a one word note on which ones you would repeat. After a few weeks the list stops being random.