{"id":38486,"date":"2021-05-28T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=38486"},"modified":"2021-05-28T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T23:37:25","slug":"book-freak-51-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/book-freak-51-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #52: Finding Meaning in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man\u2019s primary motivational force is his search for meaning.\u00a0Man\u2019s Search for Meaning is more than a story of Viktor E. Frankl\u2019s triumph: it is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and an introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day. Here are four pieces of advice from his book,\u00a0Man\u2019s Search for Meaning<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Let success happen by not caring about it<\/strong>
\n\u201cDon\u2019t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one\u2019s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one\u2019s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run\u2014in the long-run, I say!\u2014success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine this your second chance at life<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!\u201d<\/p>\n

Find your “why” and the “how” will follow<\/strong>
\n\u201cTo be sure, man\u2019s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one\u2019s life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: \u201cHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.\u201d<\/p>\n

Use your freedom to choose how to respond<\/strong>
\n\u201cForces 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Book Freak<\/a> is one of our five newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other\u00a0four are the Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, Recomendo<\/a>, Gareth\u2019s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and What’s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

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