Is the Unexamined Life Worth Living?

  Create a three to five page essay on the subject of the examined or purposeful life. Life comes without instructions and it’s up to each of up to see if we are assembling the parts correctly, if we are winning or losing the game, etc. Unfortunately for most of us, we seldom check to see if we are on track. If we do, what criteria do we use? What kind of a yardstick do we use to measure our success? More importantly, whose yardstick is it and where did it come from? Please review this clip from YouTube on Earl Nightingale’s Strangest Secret: https://youtu.be/VAsRVB3FP90 Have you read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning? If not, you could get a feel for it here on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning). How about The Examined Life by Robert Nozick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Examined_Life)? The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a classic text, a short story of a boy examining his life and trying to make sense of it.