“Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl”
One of the most influential book I've ever read. Each line of the book bears a precious understanding of life and divine meaning behind living.
This book should be read by everyone once in their lifetime.
10 lessons from the book 🧵
One of the most influential book I've ever read. Each line of the book bears a precious understanding of life and divine meaning behind living.
This book should be read by everyone once in their lifetime.
10 lessons from the book 🧵
1) Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
2) He who has a “Why” to live for can bear almost any “How”. (Nietzsche)
3) The three possible sources for meaning:
- in work (doing something significant),
- in love (caring for another person), and
- in courage during difficult times.
- in work (doing something significant),
- in love (caring for another person), and
- in courage during difficult times.
4) The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love.
A man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
A man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
5) Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment.
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment.
6) No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation, he might not have done the same.
7) The Essence of Existence:
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you have acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you have acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.
8) When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Hope and positive energy can turn challenges into triumphs.
Hope and positive energy can turn challenges into triumphs.
9) Happiness and success cannot be pursued.
They must ensue and only do so as unintended side effects of personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
They must ensue and only do so as unintended side effects of personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
10) Human has potential to creatively turn life’s negative aspects into something positive or constructive – what matters is to make the best of any given situation.
Bonus:
It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.
It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.
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