Day 43 · Q1: Self-Knowledge · February 12, 2026
Pause. Breathe. Begin.
I . L E C T I O
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
C O N T E X T
Camus opens his philosophical essay with the question: is life worth living? His answer, through the myth of Sisyphus condemned to roll a boulder uphill forever, is that meaning comes not from success but from the act of persisting — from choosing to continue in the face of absurdity.
I I . M E D I T A T I O
“Where in your life are you pushing a boulder uphill — and can you find meaning in the pushing itself, not just the summit?”
I I I . S C R I P T I O
Write one sentence about a task you do repeatedly that could become meaningful if you changed your relationship to it.
I V . C O N N E X I O
Camus introduces absurdity as a fact of existence. If life is fundamentally meaningless, self-knowledge becomes even more important — it's not given; it must be created. How does this connect to de Beauvoir's 'becoming'?
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