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Before you can get good at living, you need to know what you're living for. Aristotle's concept of teleology, the idea that everything has a purpose, and that purpose determines what success looks like, turns out to be one of the most practically useful ideas in ethical philosophy. This episode explores what it means to have a telos, why most people are pursuing goals they never consciously chose, and why skills without direction are just circular motion. If you can't define what you're headed towards, you have no reliable way to know whether you’ll succeed or fail at the things that matter most to you. 

Art: Andrew Wyeth's "Winter 1946"

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