A Deeper Self-Knowledge is The Real Secret to a Meaningful life

Without self-knowledge, you cannot be truly free

Thomas Oppong
4 min readOct 3, 2022

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Artwork: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich/Public domain

Meaning is the biggest secret to a meaningful life. It’s so simple, and yet so many people miss it. It’s hidden in plain sight, waiting for you to find it. To get a meaningful life, you need to build inner self-knowledge first.

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Thomas Oppong

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Writer | Curator | Habits | Philosophy | Psychology. As seen on Forbes, Inc. and Business Insider. For my popular essays, go here: https://thomasoppong.com

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