Book Review: "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl

Book Review: "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl

We all go through moments were life seem meaningless. As if there is no point to it all. Maybe a loved one dies, or you feel like you can't advance in your career. We all go through seasons of questioning, but we always seem to find our way back to some form of meaning. But what about in a concentration camp? What about if you had to endure the greatest suffering a human has ever had to endure? Can meaning be found in the midst of that? In "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, tries to answer just that question.

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Suffering Well - Daily Ramblings

Suffering Well - Daily Ramblings

There are few things in life which are certain. Suffering is one of those things. Entire religions have been created to understand, and give meaning to, the issue of suffering. At some point in every person's life, suffering will come. You become sick, a loved one dies, you are fired from a job you love. Suffering comes in many forms. At times it may not impact you directly, but everyone knows someone currently suffering. So what are we to do with suffering?

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Don't Aim at Success - Daily Ramblings - July 12, 2018

Don't Aim at Success - Daily Ramblings - July 12, 2018

“Don't 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's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's 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—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”

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