Stop Searching. Start Creating: A Perspective Shift by Tarun Agarwala

In a world obsessed with finding purpose, Tarun Agarwala offers a strikingly refreshing perspective — meaning is not something you find; it’s something you create.

Tarun, a seasoned Customer Experience (CX) leader with over 16 years of industry expertise, is no stranger to the relentless pursuit of purpose. Like many, he once found himself consumed by questions of meaning — through the long hours of work, personal battles with depression, and a sense of disconnection that seemed to grow deeper with every attempt to understand why life felt the way it did.

But what makes Tarun’s story powerful is not the despair — it’s what he did with it.

Instead of waiting to stumble upon some grand revelation, he constructed his own meaning. He stopped treating his life as a puzzle to be solved and began seeing it as an experiment — an evolutionary trial, one among billions. This paradigm shift transformed everything.

From that point on, Tarun created a framework to help others build trust-based relationships and scale rational empathy — tools he believes are essential to a more connected, conscious, and humane world. His work focuses on enabling people to take charge of their own narrative, to reframe their challenges, and to co-create meaning in a way that empowers and liberates.

His message is simple, yet profound:

“The job doesn’t have meaning. You give it meaning. The pain doesn’t have a reason. You create the purpose. Meaning isn’t found — it’s made.”

This insight, grounded in the sociological work of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann on “social reality,” and supported by neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett’s research on how we construct our experiences, forms the foundation of Tarun’s life and work.

Whether you’re stuck in a rut, burnt out, or navigating uncertainty, Tarun’s story reminds us: we don’t have to find the light at the end of the tunnel. We can light our own torch.

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