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The Meaning of Life viktor-franl - Coggle Diagram
The Meaning of Life
Chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II
Lesson 1 – Find meaning in suffering and in your life
He believed, “In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.” To him, suffering became a task that he didn't turn his back on. He embraced it and realized the hidden opportunities for achievement. He had a strong why. Do you look for the why behind a tough situation or do you just complain about it?
From what he learned during his time in concentration camps, he developed an alternative psychotherapy called Logotherapy.
Lesson 2 – You have a choice
You always have a choice. Between stimulus and response is a gap and in that gap is the ability to choose how you respond to any given situation.
Lesson 3 – We are more resilient than we realize
We are way stronger than we give ourselves credit for. You can always push harder and go further
Lesson 4 – Take responsibility
Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Lesson 5 – Paradoxical intention
As soon as you stop fighting the obsession and instead try to ridicule them by dealing with them in an ironical way – by applying paradoxical intention – the vicious cycle is cut. The symptom diminishes. The fear is replaced by the paradoxical wish.
Lesson 6 – Everybody’s why is different
Each man's destiny is different and unique and cannot be compared. Don't compare yourself to anyone else.
Lesson 7 – Love
Love conquers all.
Lesson 8 – Happiness and success cannot be pursued
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
Lesson 9 – Cherish your memories
These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Lesson 10 – The true meaning of life
In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
