Taylor

→ Acomplish Important things

→ Creativity

→ The Creativity perspective

→ The Relevance of the Myth of Sisphus

→ To accomplish important things is to engage in purposeful activity; it is to make something happen or bring something about. It is your purpose to do so.

→ You intend to do the thing.

→ To accomplish important things is to do something really good or worthwhile.

→ This thing may or may not make you famous

→ Creativity is the capacity to accomplish things because it is your very own purpose to accomplish them.

→ If it’s your very own purpose to accomplish something, you intend to accomplish it; when you don't intend to accomplish it, it’s because somebody else intends to accomplish it.

    → cleaning your room because of your parents, copycat artist…

→ According to taylor the meaning of life is to accomplish important things through the exercise of your own creativity; use your creativity for good.

→One positive aspect of this perspective is its ties to self-worth. When you perform important tasks through your own creativity, it tends to make you feel important.

→ Creativity allows for a broad range of different endeavors, which count as life’s meaning.

    → Moral things like being a leader, activist, caretaker, and resourceful

    → Intellectual things like a discovery, proving a mathematical theorem, or writing an important philosophy essay.

    → Artistic things like composing music, painting, designing great architecture, etc.

→ We might even consider hedonic things. like finding a new way to enjoy great art and inventing novel forms of creation

→ Although it is a secular perspective → could appeal to religious (theistic) people as the creation of God. (Us being the creation of God)

→ The myth of Sisyphus presents a life completely devoid of creativity (doing a pointless/meaningless activity + he’s only doing it cuz of someone else’s intentions)