{"id":1112,"date":"2020-01-26T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qfactor.com.au\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:40:51","slug":"mans-search-for-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murrayslatter.me\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Man&#039;s Search for Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many extra ordinary people in this world, then there are extraordinary people, Viktor Frankle with his book, Man&#8217;s search for meaning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/gp\/offer-listing\/1846042844\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=247&amp;creative=1211&amp;creativeASIN=1846042844&amp;linkCode=am2&amp;tag=qfactorinsigh-22&amp;linkId=760f4b6f29c70176d500306e0e77c7b8\">are both extraordinary<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n<p>It is simply impossible for anyone other than survivors to know what life was like for a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. We can only imagine how people got through each day, and how they managed to stay sane when surrounded by atrocities.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Viktor Frankl, himself a survivor of the camps, helps explain how prisoners of the Nazi regime struggled through. These experiences also provided Frankl with evidence for his psychological theory,&nbsp;<em>logotherapy,&nbsp;<\/em>which explains how, in order to thrive \u2013 and, in more dire circumstances, survive \u2013 we need to discover our personal meaning of life.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>These book summary explain both Frankl\u2019s findings from the camps and his development of logotherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In this summary of Man\u2019s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl you will discover<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>how to find meaning in your life;<\/li><li>how the concentration camps sucked the hope out of prisoners; and<\/li><li>how some people can find humor in even the worst situations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-amazon-kindle wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man&#039;s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust (With New Material)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com.au\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=am2&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_Law9DCwA8ZbXI9&#038;asin=1846042844&#038;tag=qfactorinsigh-22\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #1: Hope and Dispare <\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prisoners\u2019 first reaction to the concentration camps was shock \u2013 first in the form of hope, then despair.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Today, everyone has at least some awareness of the horrible, inhumane acts that were carried out in the concentration camps across Germany and Eastern Europe under the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the targets of Nazi violence during the Holocaust had at least some inkling of the terrible fate that awaited them. Because of this, you\u2019d think that the initial reaction upon entering the camps would have been fear. Reactions, however, were split into three distinct phases.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The first phase began upon arrival at the camp \u2013 or even as inmates were being transported.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Prisoners were so shocked at what was happening that they desperately tried to convince themselves that, somehow, everything would be alright. Most prisoners had heard horrific stories about what happened at the camps, yet when they themselves were sent there, they told themselves that things would be different for them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Those who arrived at the death camp Auschwitz, for example, were sent to the left or right as they exited the train \u2013 one group for hard labor and one for immediate execution. However, none of them knew what these groups meant.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <em>Delusion of reprieve<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Due to the shock of arriving at the camp, the prisoners succumbed to the&nbsp;<em>delusion of reprieve<\/em>, falsely believing that the line&nbsp;<em>they&nbsp;<\/em>were in would somehow mean an escape from certain doom.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>During this first phase, the prisoners who hadn\u2019t yet become accustomed to the horrors of the camp were terribly frightened by everything that went on. Newly arrived prisoners couldn\u2019t manage the intensely emotional experience of watching other prisoners being punished in the most brutal ways for the most trivial offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Confronted with grotesque brutality, they soon lost their hope and began to see death as some kind of relief. Most, in fact, considered suicide as a way out \u2013 perhaps by grabbing the electrical fence around the camp.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #2: Dispair breads apathy <\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After a few days in the camp, prisoners fell into a state of apathy, which allowed them to concentrate on survival.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Following their initial shock, prisoners soon became \u201cused to\u201d the horror and death that surrounded them, thus becoming emotionally dull.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Instead, all their thoughts and emotions were focused on survival. Rather than muse about feelings like love or desire, for example, prisoners mostly talked and even dreamed about food or any other kind of vital, life-sustaining satisfactions that we normally take for granted, but which were severely limited in the camps.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>While prisoners hid from the horror in the first phase, the dull emotions of the second phase acted as a shield, giving them the constitution to both live through the everyday cruelties of the camps and grab any opportunity to improve their own chance of survival.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For example, after several people died during a typhus outbreak in one of the camps, prisoners in the second phase no longer felt disgust or pity as they gazed at the corpses. Instead, they saw an opportunity to grab leftover food, shoes or other clothing items from the now deceased prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>There was no foreseeable end to their time in the camp other than at the hands of the guards, which left prisoners unable to imagine that life still had any meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Usually, we live for the future: we make big plans and get excited about seeing our life unfold. Prisoners in the camps, however, had a completely different view. For them, there was no excitement for the future. There wasn\u2019t even a future \u2013 nobody knew when (or if) their prison term would come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Most prisoners thought their lives were already over. They merely \u201cexisted\u201d in the camp \u2013 they gave up \u201cliving\u201d as there were no goals to reach.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #3: Psycology After Release<\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life after liberation from the camps was often characterized first by a feeling of disbelief, and then by bitterness.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The prisoners who were lucky enough to survive the concentration camps had to face a new challenge upon their release. Most had spent such a long time in the camps that living a normal life became very difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Immediately after their release, the prisoners were unable to grasp their freedom. Accustomed to a state of emotional apathy, they couldn\u2019t immediately change their perspective. At first, prisoners couldn\u2019t experience pleasure or joy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Having dreamed so often of liberation, they found it unreal when it finally came.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>After being liberated many prisoners felt as though, after all of the brutality that had been inflicted upon them, it was their turn to inflict harm on others. Having been made to suffer such inhumanity, it made complete sense to them to look for some sort of compensation, for instance, by taking vengeance against the guards in the camps.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, liberated prisoners didn\u2019t always receive the warm welcome they imagined they would when they returned home. Unfortunately, many prisoners came home only to find that their family had been killed and their towns turned to rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>But their bitterness wasn\u2019t just about lost family and friends. They hoped for compassion, expecting that their suffering would be understood. All too often, however, the people they talked to after release \u2013 those who had never seen a concentration camp \u2013 would only shrug and tell that they too had suffered, for example, from rationing and bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>While returning to a normal life certainly wasn\u2019t easy for the liberated prisoners, after a while most of them managed to enjoy their lives once more and be happy that they\u2019d survived the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #4: Internalisation and Distraction <\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prisoners concentrated on their \u201cinner\u201d lives to distract themselves from what was happening in the real world.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>So far, we\u2019ve seen how prisoners suffered inside the camp. But how was it possible to protect their sanity and survive the horrors? In essence, it all came down to where they placed their focus.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For some, imagining their loved ones and reminiscing about the past made it possible to mentally escape the terror and brutality of their environment. In fact, those who were able to find at least a bit of happiness in their memories were often better able to survive than others.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In the brutal reality of the camps they had no relief, as they were forced to do hard labor in the cold with little more than rags on their backs. Love, however, could bring them fulfillment. A nice conversation with their loved ones \u2013 even if only in their imagination \u2013 was something the camp guards couldn\u2019t take away from them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Even the smallest slivers of memory were able to bring relief \u2013 mundane things like switching on the lights in their own bedrooms back home.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>A few of the prisoners found solace by immersing themselves in nature and humor. An idyllic sunset or a cute bird could offer the inmates a fragment of happiness, even if it was only fleeting.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Prisoners managed small gatherings during their half-hour lunchbreak, during which they tried to distract themselves from their reality, for example, by songs or other small performances.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>There were even rare moments when prisoners found their sense of humor.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This humor often involved imagining the future \u2013 after being released \u2013 and joking about how their camp routines might affect later situations. For example, sitting at the family dinner table, they might forget where they were and ask for soup from the bottom of the bowl, where the few nutritious peas would be found in the camp cook pots.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #5: Wrestle for Power <\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most prisoners accepted their fate, but some tried to make decisions whenever they could.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The freedom to choose, whether it\u2019s picking out our outfits, our lunches or the charities to which we donate, is something we all take for granted. Of course, in the camps, nothing could be taken for granted. The ability to decide for oneself took on a completely new meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Most decisions were a matter of life or death, and many prisoners were afraid to make them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, for example, prisoners were ordered to go to another camp. However, the prisoners were kept in the dark about the true destination and the meaning of the transfer. The guards sometimes referred to these as \u201crest camps,\u201d but no one could be certain that they weren\u2019t being led to the gas chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>So, once prisoners realized that they would be sent elsewhere, some would become desperate to change that decision. This was sometimes possible if they worked harder for their captors, e.g., by volunteering for extra shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Yet there was also the possibility that their new camp would actually bring them relief. There was simply no way for them to know what decision would be best, and thus many prisoners decided that they should not intervene in their fate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>There were other prisoners, however, who were determined to maintain even the tiniest freedoms, and therefore grabbed any opportunity to make decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Despite their miserable conditions, these prisoners tried \u2013 as far as was possible \u2013 to live in accordance with their own values.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Their spiritual life, for example, was something that couldn\u2019t be taken away from them. Although they might have to abandon their rituals, they could still decide to live up to high moral standards.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For instance, some prisoners would give bread to those who were in greater need, even though they were hungry too.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #6: According to logotherapy, our motivation to act stems from our life\u2019s meaning.<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Frankl witnessed many terrible scenes in the camps. During that time, he realized again and again that people need meaning in their lives in order to have something to look forward to.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the prisoners who could maintain this meaning were stronger and more resilient than those who had lost it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This observation helped confirm many ideas from his own theory of psychotherapy,&nbsp;<em>logotherapy<\/em>, which posits that our search for meaning is the greatest motivation in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>There is plenty of research that supports this idea. For example, in a study from Johns Hopkins University, students were asked what they considered to be central in their lives. The vast majority \u2013 78 percent \u2013 reported that finding a purpose and meaning in life was most important to them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>When we\u2019re unable to find meaning in our lives, we\u2019re left with what is referred to as an&nbsp;<em>existential vacuum<\/em>. People who are unable to live according to their values, or feel like their lives have no meaning, will find a kind of emptiness inside themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t have to undergo serious trauma to experience the existential vacuum. Just take the widespread \u201cSunday neurosis,\u201d for example, which occurs when people start to relax after a structured week of hard work, only to realize that their lives are totally devoid of substance.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Logotherapy aims to help people find meaning, and thus prevent the negative consequences that could result from a persisting existential vacuum.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #7: Our Purpose or Meaning <\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There is no general meaning of life; everyone\u2019s life has it&#8217;s own specific meaning in a given moment.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Knowing how important it is to find a purpose in life, we\u2019re left asking ourselves how we go about finding our own. Indeed, many people believe that, in order to make the right choices in life, they must first discover their life\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Logotherapy, however, suggests that the opposite is true: it\u2019s how we act, and it\u2019s the responsibility we feel toward our choices that determines our meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For example, the prisoners in the concentration camps who were able to maintain a purpose in life did so based on the choices that they made. The decision to look for beauty in nature or help others in greater need gave them a purpose, a realization that they were not beaten and could keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>One consequence of this is that our meanings don\u2019t have to be the same. In fact, everyone has his own meaning of life.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>If you ask a chess grandmaster the best move, she\u2019ll tell you that there is no best move&nbsp;<em>in general<\/em>. There is, however, a best move depending on the varying situations during the game.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The same applies to life\u2019s meaning: there is no general meaning of life, and life\u2019s meaning depends on each individual\u2019s unique set of circumstances and decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Logotherapy aims to help people understand the possibility that their lives can have meaning and that everybody has to figure out his life\u2019s purpose according to his own decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The meaning of life has no restrictions. For example, you might discover that your new job at a recycling start-up offers you personal meaning (e.g., feeling like you\u2019re part of a positive contribution to the world) or it could go beyond the personal, and involve society and social conscience (e.g., seeing the improvement in other people\u2019s lives).<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning Key Idea #8: You can Manage you Fear <\/h2>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can manage your fears by actively pursuing them.<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Although the ultimate goal of logotherapy is to help patients find the meaning of life, that isn\u2019t its sole application. Logotherapy has also developed a number techniques that are helpful for people who\u2019ve developed mental disorders, e.g., after experiencing an existential vacuum.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Logotherapy is able to accomplish this by focusing on the internal rather than external factors that affect patients.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In normal psychotherapy, the patient is analyzed and his neurotic fears explained by his environment and other external events and circumstances. In contrast, logotherapy assumes that people are able to make decisions and define their life\u2019s purpose independently of their environment.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This basic understanding is necessary to help people realize that they are actually in control of their fears and anxieties in order to achieve long-term results. But how?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Logotherapy makes use of this strange phenomenon: when we fear something will happen, it often does, yet when we try and force something to happen, it never happens!<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Imagine you have a nervous friend who is deathly afraid of blushing in front of other people. Since he\u2019s always thinking about it, he immediately starts blushing whenever he\u2019s in a crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In this situation, logotherapy uses something called&nbsp;<em>paradoxical intention<\/em>, in which the patient is asked to do exactly the thing that she is afraid of.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Your nervous friend, for example, could start trying to blush as much as possible whenever he is around other people. Soon he\u2019ll notice that when he tries to force it, nothing happens, and he\u2019ll thus lose his fear of blushing.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Take home Idea<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This book is a heavy read, however one well worth reading to understand the mindset of Frankl in writting and scribing both his experience and Logostheory.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Our success, and sometimes our very survival, is dependent upon our ability to find our life\u2019s meaning. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>A purpose driven life, focused on an articulation of what your purpose is, is powerful when you consider the alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qfactor.com.au\/professional-development\/7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-by-s-covey\/\">Stephen Covey&#8217;s 7 Habits of Highy Effective People<\/a>, resolves a similar point, however goes into detail of how an Executive, individual or Team could &#8220;seek out&#8221; their purpose. 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