John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist whose work is on meaning his 50 hour youtube series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" is famously rich and rewarding but it's also 50 hours long and so where to begin to get a grip on his ideas? This is a collaborative attempt to give a 10 minute overview of some of the key themes in his work as it relates to making your own life more meaningful.

To go deeper (in ascending order of time investment)
If you have FIVE MINS, here is me on his "four kinds of knowing":    • Four kinds of knowing: John Vervaeke ...  
If you have FORTY MINS this conversation with David Fuller at Rebel Wisdom    • John Vervaeke: Jordan Peterson & the ...  
This TWO HOUR conversation    • Best Synoptic Overview of the Meaning...  
And Jim Rutt's 5 episode miniseries will take you the best part of EIGHT HOURS in 1.5hr bursts:    • EP143 John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening...  
Or the Awakening from the meaning crisis series is FIFTY HOURS but of course you can drip feed:    • Ep. 1  Awakening from the Meaning Cr...  

This video came from a collaborative process involving: Paul Davies, Robert Gray, Alex Cope and Alex Kennedy and that collaborative process emerged from a gathering initiated by David Fuller at Rebel Wisdom who is in the process of making a documentary about John and his work.

Musical thanks goes to Chopin for Andante Spianato, Nocturne 2 and Prelude 7.