"So much of the pop psychology stuff is 'focus on yourself, focus on your own personal growth, focus on your needs, focus on your self-care, focus on you, you, you,'" says psychologist Kendall Cotton Bronk of Claremont Graduate University. Instead, she argued, "the real path to happiness is focusing on others, on how you can contribute to others and their well-being. … What we need to be focusing on is contributing in meaningful ways, and often that will lead to the happiness that you're seeking."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/24/happiness-purpose-community-contribution/
"We have one life to live, and one chance to do something meaningful with it. We can all contribute something useful."
https://thehumanist.com/magazine//commentary/herbs-corner-values-and-purposes/
