Purpose & Meaning of Life #7 Encyclopedia Entry Experiment

Imagine if you will that you were to open an Encyclopedia. It could be the old book type ( like Britannica, Larousse) or online / digital version like Wikipedia or Encarta from Microsoft.

As you browse through the Encyclopedia you stumble across your picture. Yet surprisingly the is no information, no data about you except this line:
Please fill in the missing data..............(only the person from photo has the right and responsibility to do so ).

 Purpose & Meaning of Life #7 

Encyclopedia Entry Experiment



So what are you going to write about yourself?

What would you like to read about yourself in an encyclopedia?

What kind of achievements, successes would be awesome to see there?

What kind of relationships did you had?

How about your Health (Body and Mind)? Would you like to say that you were fit, athletic? How did you do it?

In what ways would you like to be described as a person?

What would you like to say about the ways that you dealt with the challenges of life?


How about your Career and Work? 

What kind of emotions did experienced on a day to day basis? 

How wealthy would like to read that you were? Financially (how much money? how did you use them)? 

In what other ways would you like to be wealthy? Wealth of experiences? Places you visited? Books you read? People you helped? 

What would enjoy reading about the Meaning and Purpose of life?

For what reasons did you lived?

What would you like to read that it meant for you to be alive on this earth?


Depending on your age at the time of this reading you might have already lived 20, 30 , 40 years of your live. You probably have accumulated lots of experiences. With some of them you might be pleased with, proud of, delighted. With other experiences you may be disappointed, frustrated, confused, helpless, and son on.

What  would like to read about your attitude, approach towards your Past (People, Experiences, Meanings)?

Did you use it to learn from it?

Which side of the glass did you choose to see primarily? The full or empty side?

Did you use it a steeping stone towards your awesome future?


Do you tend to cherry pick experiences, people, interpretations, meanings from your Past to explain and justify your Present / Future in a victimizing - depressed way or empowering - happy way?

Would you like to read about your self in that Encyclopedia that you were a Victim, Sad, Weak person or that you were a Powerful, Resourceful, Happy person?

 What if today was a turning point in your life? What would you like to read that you did to turn your life around towards greatness and take it to another level?


Are you having trouble to come up with answers?

In order to identify what you want you could start by finding out what you don't want:
  • What don't you want to see / read about in an Encyclopedia about yourself?
  • What would be awful to be written about yourself?
  • What would you do anything to prevent it form being said / written about you?
  • What is going on now in your life that you would rather stop doing it / eliminate than to be said about you?



  • Please do the Exercises and Experiments from the previous posts to explore alternative ways to Discover or to Design the Meaning and Purpose of our Life:


  • #1 Future Self Experiment
  • #2 - Be the Creator Experiment
  • #3 - Be the Writer, Director and Actor
  • #4 - Childhood Eyes Exercise
  • #5 - Probe for what Drives, Animates, Energizes
  • #6 - Metaphors and Analogies for Life Exercise
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