Lessons from “Man’s Search For Meaning”
by Nino · 31 things on NewTwos
- Sometimes the only way to survive is to surrender to dying
- Being indifferent to death allowed people to survive. In order to survive, you had to be okay with dying any moment.
- Your life has its own meaning and it’s up to you to find it in any given moment
- How you act, and how much responsibility you bring to the decisions you make determines how big your sense of meaning in life is.
- Try to force your fears to come true to make them go away
- Another thing logotherapy does is enable people by focusing on their internal state of mind, instead of external factors, thus giving them a sense of control over their own life.
- Change your daily approach to life
- We can make life meaningful by preparing and searching for tasks that can define our lives.
- The more you’re able to find meaning from small moments, the more likely you’ll be proud of the life you live.
- Use your imagination to overcome suffering
- Positive thoughts can act as a distraction from a horrible reality.
- Frankl pushed on because he was able to retreat within himself. His body was beaten, but his spirit remained unconquerable.
- Suffering is always followed by liberation
- There comes a time in each person’s life where we become liberated from our suffering.
- The countryside around the camp he was imprisoned at was free and open. In this state of gratitude, Frankl broke down and fell to his knees.
- Love finds its deepest meaning in the inner, spiritual being
- The salvation of man is through love and in love. The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
- Don’t aim at success
- Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
- Listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.
- Self-determining - meaning in each moment
- Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
- “What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.”
- Choice of attitude - the last of the human freedoms
- Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
- You can't improve if you don't know what you're doing wrong.
- Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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