To make you go "Wow." My purpose is to make you see how everything is different, and then make you see how everything is the same, and then make you see how everything is different again! Contrasts and metaphors, I do it through music, sound, eyes, colors, lines, shapes, images, words, stories. I manipulate the world - even though it really stays the same. I'm an illusionist, but I'm real, I'm honest. I'm Shakespeare! " 'C'est la vie!' say the old folks; it goes to show you never can tell." (warning: This 'purpose' is going to seem enormously hypocritical once you read the rest of this. and i am aware.)
My other purpose is to have buns of steel. I am determined to look like Heidi Klum.
Everyone has the same purpose it seems. From Think and Grow Rich, Hill said that a purpose like 'grow and inspire and be the best' is about as specific as a frog's ability to compare of the size and capacity of the entire universe to itself.
I don't think that "Inspire" or "be the best" or "end war" is a purpose. It can't be. I'm not driven by generalities like that for some reason. It's too easy to rationalize anything into the category of "inspiring". Eating a salad today 'inspired' my mom to throw away the potato chips. Purpose fufilled, I can die now. No!
What was Micheal Phelps purpose? I don't know if such a broad scope of thinking could've led him to win 8 gold medals. "To inspire?" or "To swim 24 laps in 8 minutes and 34 seconds and 6 milliseconds." Do you see? They are synonyms (breaking a record is inspiring) but one is a purpose, the other is just a feeling.
Henry Ford? To "change the world"? "Do the impossible"? No. To "build the first automobile with a V8 engine and watch everyone in America drive the same car."
Correct me if I'm wrong. You guys need to do your homework. (and so do I)