If we choose to focus on being good people for the sake of being good people and making the most out of our lives, no “bigger picture” should even cross our minds. Here are the 18 and 60 images side-by-side I think you will agree that in the closer photos taken at 18, 21, and 30 make our subject’s face appear thinner. How can we know that there is a larger picture, and why does it matter if there is a larger picture for our actions to fit into? Even with religion as an example and the goal of reaching heaven, why is that important? What makes that the meaning of life? If the meaning of life not to simply live? Without the bigger picture, some people will be more satisfied, and others will be depressed, as Nagel says. Keep your vision statement or vision board where you can see it and then look.
But if you want to see the bigger picture, then the. Thinking about the big picture too much can get in the way of our day-to-day lives you dont want to be dreaming about your life 20 years from now while you. After youve done the work to clarify your big picture, dont just put it aside. Nagel, however, questions the validity of this proposition. We have been told that participative leadership, rather than prescriptive leadership, is what we should aim for that organizations should be agile, with change the only constant and that. As scientists we tend to be rather introspectiv, and confine conference going to our own areas of research. Our reading for our Philosophy class is the 10th chapter of Thomas Nagel’s What Does It All Mean? which was named “The Meaning of Life.” In this chapter, Nagel discussed many people’s meaning of life: how their actions fit into a larger scheme.