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How do u judge something is meaningful or not.
I read the book to find a solid answer, but i could not find one @@

How do u judge something is meaningful or not.
I read the book to find a solid answer, but i could not find one @@

How do u judge something is meaningful or not.
I read the book to find a solid answer, but i could not find one @@

Hiep wrote: "How do u judge something is meaningful or not.
I read the book to find a solid answer, but i could not find one @@"

Hi Hiep, it is nice to hear from you! It has to be something beyond yourself, usually in service to others. Solving geometry problems, for example, is fulfilling for me, but it becomes meaningful when I can teach the analysis to my students.

Judging by what I have read in other books (see my "meaning and happinness" category here on Goodreads), the use of your strengths will give you fulfillment. Use those strengths in service to others (directly or indirectly) and you will find meaning.

So, what gives a person's life a sense of meaning will differ from person to person.

If you have any questions, feel free to write again.

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Frank,
don't you think there are two types of meaning to life...'Meaningful to you' ... 'Meaningful to the World in general' ... How about not searching the meaning but believing that everything you do is meaningful in someway....somewhat like don't do what you love but love what you do... :)

"This should be recommended to 12th graders." I'm only 13 and understand all of it. I love to read about this stuff.

Gautam wrote: "Good on your. Hope you are aligned to the meaning in the years to come."

Thank you.

Agreed man
A classic tribute to hope from Holocaust.
Best book i have read about Holocaust..
It is truly a must read book..
A enduring work of survival literate

I just started reading this book yesterday and I'm already loving the lessons that I'm learning.. can't wait to see what the rest of the book is like!

Ashish Gourav. Living the definitions you give of meaning. We are not always aware of the reason but it is always there. We have to define our own meaning.

The search of meaning for me can never be too constant, it changes.
But then again it's good to have a frame even if you don't have the exact picture in your mind. Enjoyed the review, cheers.

Very interesting book

“The man search for meaning”. Book which I am going to complete reading in shortest of time I have ever read any book. It’s a very captivating book which makes you think about own life. What a heart rending story narrated by Viktor Frankl of his life as prisoner with thousands other who spent and lost their lives at Concentration Camp. If one know the “why” of suffering, one gets through suffering “Any How”. I have started looking at my life with Viktor’s eyes. Truly marvellous book.

Through Frankl’s experience as a survivor of a concentration camp and his psychotherapy knowledge “Man’s search for meaning” is developed.

Man is a spiritual being, captured in the constant and somehow “anxious” search for meaning and trascendance in an era of collective neurosis and “existential vaccum”.

Anxiety comes when we can not identify the meaning of our life, but we shouldn’t overthink about it and see what life expects of each one of us, since we experience unique situations and learn different lessons from them (suffering has a meaning), life meaning varies depending on each individual and how we are free to choose what to become instead of thinking we are a victim of circumstances.

Perhaps the constant desire of finding meaning to life is what makes us human.

At the end of the book he explains his logotherapy technique through real study cases which make it easy to understand despite not being related this science.

This book gave me a perspective-not a final one though. This very well authored, and has meaningfully explained the meaning of life.

A former colleague gifted me this book. Little did he know, but I was coming upon the worst battle of my life with benzo withdrawal, a hellish few months of sleeplessness, terror, and other unbearable symptoms. But bear them I did. With Frankel's haunting account of the concentration camps, I felt like he'd walked with me, hand in hand, out of meaninglessness and torment back into life.

This book changed my life.

Hi Frank. Just out of curiosity, how did you conclude that you should study physics instead of engineering based on this book?

Best Regards
Victor.

A beautiful review, concise and direct, with wonderful illustrations from personal experience, and worthy of the more than 1000 likes it has already received.

I count it as a great loss, never to have read this book.

Hi Frank! hope u are enjoying life. Am replying after 12yrs am in 12grade now. And i hope your life is so good more than ever. Tnx for your comment!