consider this thought exploration with me: how do you orient yourself? how do you decide what to do? how do you invest in yourself? you may have a decent level of clarity to answer these questions, or you might not. when we don't have clarity, it's very easy to enter a rabbit hole of spending years digging into these questions, questioning what your purpose and the purpose of life are, what life is, who you are, etc, and it can take a very long time and effort to reach a basic level clarity.