In his Stanford University graduation speech, Steve Jobs said, "You can only connect the dots looking backwards," meaning that purpose is a lot like passion in that it reveals itself more at the end than in the beginning.
Your purpose is rarely constant. It changes as you age and mature and encounter life's unexpected turns. Each phase of your life will provide opportunities to find purpose.
The challenges you face in each phase of your life will provide opportunities to find purpose. However, you will likely not understand your ultimate purpose until late in your journey.
In the 1991 movie City Slickers, the old cowboy (Jack Palance) highlights how city folks misunderstand purpose, saying, 'You spend fifty weeks a year getting knots in your rope, and then you think two weeks up here will straighten it out.'
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