Lacking purpose, indicated by an inability to answer 'why were you born?' or 'for what are you willing to die?', signifies a serious meaning problem.

“here's the way I have a kind of a diagnostic test to see if somebody has a meaning crisis and the reason this is useful it's a two question exam”

“Here's the way I have a kind of a diagnostic test to see if somebody has a meaning crisis. And the reason this is useful, it's a two question exam. And if somebody doesn't have real answers, everybody's got PC answers, answers you give your mom or whatever, but if you don't have real answers to this, the good news is these are the two questions to go looking for answers to in your life.”

“Question number one is, why are you alive? Why are you alive? You got to have an answer. Not my answer, your answer. A real answer. Question number two is for, what are you willing to die today? Now, you flunk this quiz by saying, "Oh, no." That's how you flunk the quiz. But then the adventure actually begins after you flunk the quiz because like I'm going to figure that out.”

“And if you can't answer one or both of those questions, you have a serious meaning problem.”