What Makes Life Meaningful

Michael Steger is an Associate Professor in the Counseling Psychology and Applied Social Psychology programs at Colorado State University. He's also the co-editor of Designing Positive Psychology from Oxford University Press, and Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace from American Psychological Association Press. In this talk, he asks the question "What Makes Life Meaningful?" and he shares what psychological science can tell us about the answer. He says, "Purpose is the need to do."