It's important to touch grass, yes, but dismissing the project of figuring this stuff out is unwise. There is a reason that these problems keep coming up for people, and it's not because they aren't hitting the gym enough.
It's because people are too comfortable, we evolved to think about the next 24 hours, not the next 24 billion years.
If you didn't do the former you'd literally die, now that's not true anymore, but it doesn't mean that we are equipped to do the latter, and in fact those who try always end up with a huge burden of anxiety and unhappiness.
The same mental energies should be focused back again on the next 24 hours. We are not at risk of death in the next 24 hours anymore, but we should be able to find the subtle differences that make our day better.
A better brand of coffee, exercise, walking the dog, talk to strangers, join a club or a sports team etc.
It's not that grandiose compared to discovering the true nature of reality or the writing the "guide to meaning" (whatever the fuck that means) , but at least it's real, actionable and doable, NOW!
