It 's More Than Being Happy, By Emily Smith

In Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning we are told a powerful story of a man’s survival through the Holocaust. Frankl struggles to not only keep his body alive, but his spirit as well. Frankl’s main goal is to not only come out alive from the Holocaust but to not let it change him and ultimately defeat or take over his life and change who he truly is. He knows the only way to stay alive is to find some sort of meaning in his life. As we watch him fight to survive during his stay in concentration camps we begin to realize that the only way he is surviving is because he hasn’t forgotten who he still is and the identity that the Nazi’s were trying to take from him. He keeps his personal identity, goals, and morals in mind while

In the video titled “The Happy Secret To Better Work”, Shawn Achor really outlines how being happy and staying positive can really change your life. In other words Achor is referring to positive psychology. When referring to the world around us Achor really believes the majority of people focus on only the negatives and not the positives. He also talks about how that reality might not be what shapes us but in actuality it is our brain that puts a lens on how we perceive things and that may change our happiness. Achor also outlines another trait of our brain, which is that we as humans set progressing goals that never seem to be fulfilled due to human nature. He finishes his presentation by giving the audience some ways to help reverse the way we see the world and help our work and life in general.

As Kristi Bowman says, “The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life”. Part of life is the choices that a person makes. A fulfilled life is shown through the growth of an individual. According to Faulkner, Robinson and Freeman evidence of an unlived life is defined by the ability to make one’s own way, identify the importance of life and self-deprivation.

He states, "The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. Yet it is possible to practice the art of living even in a concentration camp, although suffering is omnipresent... All through the night and late into the next morning, we had to stand outside, frozen and soaked to the skin after the strain of our long journey. And yet we were all very pleased! There was no chimney in this camp and Auschwitz was a long way off" (Frankl). Frankl and his group's behavior shows that even in the face of anguish and discomfort, the human spirit finds ways to console and enliven itself and the others around it and find happiness in the most distressing situations. Even though Frankl's group was living in dreary and miserable conditions, they created meaning in their minds as a mechanism for hope and survival in order to overcome

In the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, he uses his past experiences from different concentration camps to describe what he learned was the true meaning of life. Throughout the book he describes in details that he had no hope for life as he felt pain, humility, and human cruelty during his time as a prisoner in multiple concentration camps. Frankl, believed that he had a chance to survive by using inner strengths. His great sense of humor helped him get though the many difficult situations that he had encountered. He supposed that “what doesn’t kill you makes your stronger.”

Certain situations and experiences we undergo in our lifetime are destined, nearly inevitable. Mans search for meaning urges us to acknowledge that “we cannot avoid suffering, but we can chose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose”. Viktor Frankl was faced with an experience of inevitable suffering during his time spent at various concentration camps during the second World War. It is these experiences and sufferings that set the narrative in his novel “Mans Search for Meaning”, where he uses a philosophical standpoint to evaluate his life in camp which led to his liberation. Within this paper, I intend to present Frankl’s ideology that when faced with suffering, you must have control over your free

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In the book Life is so Good, George Dawson and Richard Glaubman give a very rare representation of life in the early 1900s. George Dawson, a poor and illiterate black man tells life as it is through his experiences. These many life experiences are portrayed in new stories told chapter by chapter intrigue the reader of the book. This paper will review Dawson’s many stories and his perspective on life at the time, as well as the way his views and mindset compares to the philosophy of African Americans at this time.

An Introspective Look at Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and Logotherapy There is an old adage that implies that “into every life, a little rain must fall,” which suggests that some amount of suffering, be it miniscule or great, is an unavoidable part of every human being’s existence. Undoubtedly, there are circumstances in one’s life that are beyond his or her control. Circumstances that will cause one to question his or her very existence and pose the question “Why me?” Viktor Frankl experienced such an event when he was imprisoned in several Jewish concentration camps during the Holocaust. Frankl’s novel, Man’s Search for Meaning (2006), gives an account of Frankl’s time spent in Jewish concentration camps. During this harrowing experience, Frankl used the daily occurrences that surrounded him to observe and analyze the impact that such suffering has on man. During his time in the camp, Frankl was stripped of his identity, his family, and all of his material

As I read through Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, I grasp on to all the epiphanies and realizations that Frankl reflects upon and take them into consideration in my own life. Although I have never gone through any experiences even remotely similar to his experiences in the concentration camps, in this time in my life I am searching for meaning in a way. Moving on to a new chapter in my life, I feel as though I am trying to find my purpose, who I am, and who I will become. Therefore, Man’s Search for Meaning has provided me with multiple major insights in my own search for meaning.

A similar article, published by Scientific American entitled "Not Everyone Wants to be Happy" and written by Jennifer Aaker and Emily Smith, mirrors Brooks' same sentiment in regards to the unhealthy obsession those who live in western society have with both acquiring and maintaining happiness. A study was conducted in regards to displaying how different cultures define happiness within their own lives. The study concluded that Americans place much more emphasis on personal happiness, which is opposite of the feelings expressed by those of East Asian descent. Individuals living in the East seem to place more emphasis in the happiness of the whole rather than the individual parts that compose it. In fact, this study showed Americans are so concerned

Man’s Search for Meaning is filled with invaluable advice for life and receiving the best out of it. Throughout Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl explains his belief in attaining an ultimate purpose of life and he attains this purpose during his time at the Dachau concentration camp. Indications were given as to what this purpose is throughout the text, which was to inform others about logotherapy and finding their purpose in life. Frankl’s book and research may very much lead readers and others to ask “When will I attain my ultimate purpose in

The premise of Frankl’s book is that mankind’s desire for meaning is much stronger than its desire for power or pleasure and that if man can find meaning in life he can survive anything. Frankl introduces this idea [which he calls the theory of logotherapy] throughout his concentration camp experiences in the book’s first section and delves deeper into it in the second section. Referencing Nietzsche, Frankl tells us “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'” (p. 80). The most important thing to be learned from this statement is that no matter what your circumstances are, you can be happy, or at least survive, if you find a meaning or purpose in life. While in the concentration camp Frankl tells us that in order to maintain his desire to have a meaningful life he focused on three main things: suffering, work, and love. Of sacrifice

Everyone has a different want in life. Everyone has their own way of how they will live their life. We all have different opinions of the way life should go and how it should be lived. How we should raise our children, how we deal with the loss of a loved one, how we get over someone, how we save money, and etc. Life is full of different opinions and ideas.

For you to know how to live a contented life, you should know first the dissimilarity between what is right and what is wrong. Then, you have to choose to do things the right way.