After a brief discussion of Martin McDonagh’s film The Banshees of Inisherin, Hauskeller introduces the reader to the main idea that is defended in the book: that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, any life that feels meaningful to the one who lives it is meaningful. Meaningfulness is not an objective quality of lives, nor does it in any way depend on such a quality. To understand what makes a life meaningful we need to adopt a first-person perspective and start with the experience of meaning (and meaninglessness) in people’s lives rather than with our third-person judgement of what kind of lives are meaningful and what kind of lives are not. There are many ways in which a life can be meaningful, including some that would not be meaningful for us to live.