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4 hours agoThe Most Important Question in Therapy: Why
Therapy fundamentally addresses meaning and purpose; people endure hardship when it connects to something that matters, not through coping strategies alone.
A mentor once told me that, when writing a research statement for a professorship, I had to start with the most ambitious pitch I could imagine - and then go ten times bigger. It's tricky enough to do this as a cosmologist, given that the topic of study is the entire Universe. But there is a quest that is more ambitious still: to find out 'what are we doing here?'