So for this question the mind always has — “What should I do now?” — the Buddha provides an answer for it. This is why the Dhamma is so good for the mind, so right for the mind, because it answers your burning question.

"So for this question the mind always has — “What should I do now?” — [the Buddha] provides an answer for it. This is why the Dhamma is so good for the mind, so right for the mind, because it answers your burning question: You’ve got these responsibilities. How do you handle them, for the sake of a happiness that’s worth the effort that goes into it?

The Buddha doesn’t waste his time talking about totally irrelevant things. After all, he said he learned a lot of things in the course of his awakening that he didn’t talk about. Why? Because it wouldn’t help with the solution to this problem: Why are we suffering? What are we doing that’s creating the suffering and what can we do to stop? He was very critical of teachers who would engage in what he called “bombast”: flowery words, beautiful sentiments that don’t offer any guidance that could be applied to that question, “What should I do next? What is the wisest thing to do next?”

So we should take his teachings and apply them right here. As he said, the best response to listening to the Dhamma is first to apply appropriate attention, which means asking yourself, “How does what I’ve learned in this Dhamma apply to how I’m creating suffering right now or to how I can put an end to it?” Then you practice the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. In other words, you don’t let your preferences get in the way. If you see a task that needs to be done, you do it. That’s how you can become your own best friend on the path."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Appropriate Attention"