"Man's search for meaning"

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Yep, I read it when I was about 15, and working at McDonald's cleaning up after the "general public." What he said really seemed to make sense at the time... What I was doing certainly didn't have much "meaning"!


Unfortunately, I let it overly influence my choice of professions.... bad idea.

6 years of college and 14 miserable years in a "helping profession" later, I made a major career change. Now, I've got a great job that I truly enjoy. I do nothing pertaining to my original major, but everything pertaining to what I actually enjoy in life. No stress or misery, and it's like getting paid to do my hobby! I'm sure the change added 20 years to my life.

Good book, but in my experience, it's a good idea to keep his message in perspective! :-)

John
 
Very good book. Read it for the first time in college on my own. Unlike most stuff I had to read, it made sense.

Still does.
 
Just for around to reading it last year. My favorite and most impactfulmpart states, "it's not what you expect from life, but what life expects from you."

Wonderful and insightful book. Enjoy!
 
I like those quotes. I haven't read him but I am currently reading C S Lewis and G K Chesterton both of whom interest me. I'll keep Frankl in mind.
 
I stopped reading self help books. I learned that I set goals, but that life happens while reaching for the goals. I also learned that I need to remember what is important in my life; what makes me happy. When we focus on the goal; happiness and the real important things get lost. Life is about choices, decisions. When I make a decision I have to base it on the information I have and how I think it will impact me and what is important to me. My wife and children became my first goal they were the joy in my life. I accomplished the most when I kept my first goal in mind. The thing one I regret the most is the time I spent working and not spending it with my wife and sons.
 
I read it several years ago. It's hard to imagine the terrible things he went through during his incarceration, but it's amazing how he handled the situation and the perspective he put on it.

I think it's a great read. I never considered it a "self-help" book or a book to help me find "meaning" in life. I saw it simply as one man's experience during insurmountable odds and how he handled it.

I think you'll enjoy it.
 
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The 'Search for Meaning'

Boy, that thar cover a lot of ground, now don't it....



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Win, Loss or Draw...We All Got To Ante-Up.
 
This is not a "self help" book.

The first section is autobiographical. It recounts the author's experience as a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps. During his internment he tried to made sense of why some prisoners gave up and willed themselves to die while others clung to life (and hope) in spite of overwhelming odds.

He developed a theory that explained why some were emotional/physical survivors and applied this theory to his psychiatric practice in post war Vienna.

Wonderful book.
 
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