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Why completing major goals can trigger existential crisis

I finished my degree last month and everyone is asking what I want to do next but I honestly have no idea and the question makes me panic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement's completion exposes the arbitrary nature of the goals that once provided direction, leaving a vacuum where purpose used to live.

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