Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Review
This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. A captivating case study of a psychoanalyst defining his logo therapy, a way of finding meaning in life despite of unavoidable suffering. Even though we find less unavoidable suffering today, Frankl’s teachings are ever so applicable to the current generation of humanity looking to find meaning in their lives.
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy.’ Once the reason is found … one becomes happy automatically.”
If … one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude.” Viktor Emil Frankl
”mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish.” -Frankl
”Mankind is doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom” -schopenhauer
notes
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Discover meaning of life:
- creating a work or doing a deed
- experience something or encounter someone
- the attitude we take towards suffering
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Old succesful man about being a young person again:
“No thanks, be instead of possibilities I have realities in my past. Reality of works done, love loved and sufferings suffered”