So people constantly miss the point of achieving meaning, or achieving the experience of meaningfulness. That happens dues to an absence of appropriate philosophical education, because only the philosophers would teach how and inspire you to take conclusions. Only they taught how to take conclusions out of an empirical data. No scientist did something great without considering deep philosophical questions on logic and theory of knowledge. Those teachings were mostly done by example: not every philosopher shows a logical structure behind his thought; but even so, those exceptions are made by philosophers who inspire us building strong concepts out o things we already thought to notice and be aware of everyday. Most precisely, in my opinion, Hegel and Aristotle would be enough for the task: Aristotle has principles that are reasonable for every beginner, no matter the field he deals with; and Hegel would teach you how to think things that are in motion and its contradictory complexity. He teaches you the inner life of our concepts by showing it. I learned that it takes a lot of blood for you to integrate a philosopher on your intellectual life. But I don't mean simply "discipline" by that: I mean intellectual passion, straight and courage. Because sometimes it can lead you even to apparently useless or very unwanted existential moments, before you realise that there was already something right about "common sense".
Above all, its a matter of style and taking seriously the following posture: " I do analysis in order to answer mostly precise questions, and I analyse the status and relevance of my questions, I will never analyse to please or earn a highly questionable social status".
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