We’re all trying to realize our own versions of progress: making personal changes to be better people than we were yesterday, helping friends achieve their dreams, advocating for local causes we believe will make the world a better place. Our constant striving can be simultaneously invigorating and painful, but more than that it’s inexorably human. It emanates from a deep need for meaning and purpose. Yet increasingly we find ourselves in a society where this sense of meaning and progress fee...