Reflections on Living the Meaning of Life 1

As a clinical psychologist, the author draws strength from the horrific experience of the Nazi concentration camps. During that experience, the prisoners lived like animals. What they cared about every day was whether they would have enough to eat and whether they would be beaten or dragged to the gas chamber. The mental state of people is also very different. Some people hope to be liberated but have a psychological breakdown because they are still trapped in the concentration camp every Christmas. Some people cannot bear the pain and commit suicide by hitting the power grid. In this kind of animal In a normal living environment, what is the meaning of human existence?

Victor found the meaning of his life: to help others find their meaning and live well. So a series of works were produced.

For us, what help does he give us? How to discover the meaning of your life? According to logotherapy, we can discover the meaning of life in three ways. 1. By creating a certain job or engaging in a certain career; 2. By experiencing something or facing someone; 3. By adopting a certain attitude when enduring inevitable suffering.

At the end of the article, I am reminded of the movie "Lust of Life" by Akira Kurosawa that I watched recently. When the male protagonist suffers from cancer and reaches the end of his life, looking at his son who does not understand him, working idle, and himself without any vitality, how should he be happy? He spent a lot of money immersed in drinking, sex, and having fun without being able to find himself. Later, he desperately helped the people build a park in his position and died peacefully. Concentrate on doing something meaningful and happy, and spend less energy on your own gains and losses and the opinions of others, which will make you purer and happier. After-reading thoughts on living the meaning of life 2

First of all, after reading the entire book, I have great admiration for the author. The author's experience, the author's exploration and thinking on the meaning of life are really inspiring. The author's life is full of meaning. The author is also great.

Those who know why they live will survive. The emptiness of existence, not being able to find the meaning of life, living confused and empty, sometimes is really a great pain. But I personally feel that one of the contemporary spiritual characteristics is the nothingness, confusion and emptiness of existence.

This period of time can be regarded as a critical turning period for me personally. I will also feel a little confused during this period. With such a mood, I have read this book intermittently over the past few days.

I feel that I am a bit lucky to have encountered such a book during this special time. Although I didn’t read it very coherently, I gained something, and I also had some ideas about my present and even my future.

The meaning of life sounds imaginary, but I think it is really important to an individual. Finding and practicing the meaning of one's own life can be said to be the ultimate mission of every individual's life. The meaning of life allows us to live a fulfilling life and prevent us from falling into emptiness and confusion.

The author also mentioned three ways to find the meaning of life in this book: work; love; pain. Life is bound to have many difficulties, and there are bound to be many setbacks in the process of finding and realizing the meaning of life. But no matter how bad the external conditions are, we still have the freedom to choose the way and mentality to face it. Many times, many difficulties involve mental issues. And I hope that I can maintain a positive and optimistic attitude to face it, be a tragic optimist, and be able to achieve self-transcendence.

Find the meaning of your life and make your life fulfilling. I hope each of us can realize it. After-reading notes on living the meaning of life 3

Freud once said: "If you put a certain number of people of all kinds into a state of hunger, as the hunger intensifies, all their personal differences will be eliminated. In its place would be the same expression of hunger.” Freud did not experience life in a concentration camp firsthand.

His subjects are all concentrated on the soft sofa in the Victorian style. Viktor Frankl used his personal experience in the dirty concentration camp of Auschwitz to reply that individual differences have not been eliminated. On the contrary, people's differences have become greater. No one wants to hide anything, no matter they are pigs or saints.

What I feel most deeply is that the third aspect of the tragic trinity mentioned in the book involves death, but it also involves life, because every moment of life contains death, and every moment does not Repeat again. So, isn’t this fleeting nature of life the best reminder for us to live every moment of it to the best of our ability? It certainly is, so I offer you a piece of advice: Enjoy your life now as if it were your second life, and don't act and live the same way you did in your first life.

Finally, the most important way to face death is the third way: even a helpless victim in a desperate situation can still transcend himself and change himself in the face of unchangeable misfortune. .

This is the whole meaning and fulcrum of what I want to practice! Living the Meaning of Life Review 4

The previous content of the book tells about the author’s experience in the concentration camp, which made me tremble with fear. Although the content does not involve overly bloody scenes, it still makes readers feel creepy and shuddering! At the same time, I also admire the author's ability to survive in that environment. This is not just chance, but also a strong willpower!

What impressed me deeply is that the previous author thought that it was impossible for more than 20 people to sleep together without food or clothing. However, after entering the concentration camp, the environment changed a lot. I once thought that it would be impossible for more than 20 people to sleep together. Even if you can't do it, you will gradually get used to it. Aren't things that many people think they can't do change with the changes of time and environment?

Developing a sense of humor and looking at things with a sense of humor are skills one learns as one masters the art of survival.

Sometimes life is indeed very bitter and cruel, and it will blow you to pieces. However, I gradually realized that life really needs humor, and humor can make you smile. Then facing the suffering, we continue to live!

People who cannot see any meaning or goal in life, and therefore feel that life is meaningless, are pitiful. Such people will die soon. Usually they will also say: "I no longer have any hope in life.

People are not terrible if they are not alive. The terrible thing is to live like a walking zombie, not knowing the meaning of life, and wasting time every day! Live life The meaning of reading 5

It took me two days to read this book. On Monday, I planned to prepare for the class lecture on Tuesday, but accidentally opened WeChat reading on Tuesday morning and changed everything. This is. It took me the shortest time to read this book. For me who rarely reads and procrastinates reading, reading this book is already a kind of transcendence for myself.

I don’t know the meaning of life around me. Whether people can think, I often think about why I live and what I want to pursue in life. I remember that before I was in the fourth grade of elementary school, I can’t remember the details, I had thoughts of suicide, and I once felt that life was nothing. Meaning. The first time I clearly felt that life was cute was when I fell in love with a girl in high school. I remember that even when I was walking outside the teaching building, I felt that the willow trees were cute and the breeze was warm. Later, of course, I gradually realized that it enriches the meaning of life. .

After college, I don’t plan my time like I did in high school. I have had the habit of planning and setting rules for myself since junior high school. Although most of them are in vain, haha, it does still work. And later on, the planning became more and more practical, and the action rate became higher and higher. But in college, except for special periods, I rarely make short-term plans for myself, which may also be laissez-faire to a certain extent. This situation needs to be solved urgently. 6

I was reading the book "Living the Meaning of Life" recently, and it talked about a psychology. The story of scientists in the Nazi concentration camps, I am very excited about some of the points in it.

The book says: Every life is unique. We never know when or where the end of life will be, and our time is immeasurable.

He also said: There is no single answer to questions about the meaning of life. The meaning of life is not something vague, but very real and specific.

These two paragraphs remind me of an article I once learned, "The Pearl Bird," which is about a pearl bird that builds a bridge of friendship and trust with people. Two unique beings don't even communicate with each other at all, but they still use unique ways to express friendship across species.

This book also talks about many people’s attitudes when facing suffering.

"No one can relieve your suffering or replace your pain. Your unique opportunity depends on the way you bear the burden."

After reading this, I thought: The difference between people is due to the differences they have experienced in life. The hardships you have experienced may not have been experienced by others. This hardship is the precious wealth you have.

Recently there was a saying on the Internet that impressed me deeply: "Young people are young people. They are not happy when they look at the spring breeze, they are not annoyed when they look at the summer cicadas, they are not sad when they look at the autumn wind, and they don't sigh when they look at the spring snow. They are too lazy to notice when they are full of wealth. God won’t dare to face it, just because they are teenagers.”

Yes, it’s because they have experienced many hardships and overcome many things and learned many things. Young people will grow up, take on responsibilities and hardships, and become pillars of talent.

I think I should cherish what I have experienced, what I have passed, and what I have overcome. Treat hardships as gains and difficult things as fruits. After-reading thoughts on living the meaning of life 7

The logotherapy proposed in this book believes that striving to discover the meaning of life is the most important motivation for people.

People’s search for meaning can lead to inner tension rather than balance. However, this tension is precisely a necessary prerequisite for mental health. There is nothing in the world that helps a person survive (even in the worst circumstances) more effectively than knowing that his or her life has meaning. Nietzsche has a famous saying: "He who knows why he lives can survive."

In the Nazi concentration camps, those who knew that they still had a mission to be completed in their lives were most likely to survive.

The meaning of life is different for everyone, every day, and every moment, so what matters is not the universal meaning of life, but the specific meaning of life for each person at a specific moment.

Everyone has his own unique mission. This mission cannot be replaced by others, and your life cannot be repeated. In this way, everyone's mission in life is specific, and the opportunities to complete these tasks are also specific.

Success is like happiness, it is something that can be encountered but cannot be sought. It is a natural product, a derivative of a person who unconsciously devotes himself to a great cause, or it is a product of success. The by-product of others’ dedication.

According to logotherapy, the meaning of life can be discovered in three different ways: (1) by creating a certain work or engaging in a certain career; (2) by experiencing a certain kind of work. Something or someone; (3) Adopt a certain attitude when enduring inevitable suffering.

We can try to explore the meaning of our lives from the above three aspects, which is what we often do. It means knowing what you want. This will help you feel less anxious and confused. Even if happiness and success are not around you for the time being, you might encounter them unexpectedly one day. Thoughts on living the meaning of life. 8

Death is to live better. Speaking of how to face life and death, in this book, we think about life, survival, suffering, the past and the future. Death is like the scorching sun, hard to look at and omnipresent in every choice. It means giving up, and every time we give up, we realize that life is limited and short. Only by knowing how to face death can we live better. What is the meaning of life? We may have all asked ourselves this question silently.

Viktor Frankl, who was once a psychiatrist, narrowly escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp and observed various people's psychological behaviors, personality distortions and changes, how to face death, and more importantly, how to treat life.

Find the meaning of life between life and death. It explains more deeply about life and death, as well as the meaning of life and death, and teaches people how to be freed from the fear of death. Being close to death can bring about real awakening and a change in outlook on life. Our lives are consumed by all kinds of conflicts and unhappiness, happiness and joy, smoking and drinking, staying up late and endless work. You are your own master, and you are the only one who can change yourself and the society in which you live. The person you are now is created by your past self; the you in the future is created by your present self. You should never give up on yourself at any time, live well, even the pain is meaningful. Thoughts on Living the Meaning of Life 9

A book suitable for everyone, highly recommended.

Recreating an extreme experience in human history, we not only feel the evil of the Nazis, but also realize that human beings have the freedom to choose at any time and the freedom to maintain dignity, even if they only live for The most important thing left is not to die, not to starve to death or to die of exhaustion or illness.

Everyone has his own value. We need to answer the questions raised by life, answer the questions of life with a sense of responsibility, and practice and act. The meaning of a moment is that it can be solidified through action.

We should follow the advice in the book and treat every day like a second choice. We ordinary chess players, every time we place a piece, think of the following N situations, and then in turn decide the choice. How to make a move. Similarly, we should constantly use our 80-year-old self, our fifty-year-old self, our self three years from now, and our self three months from now to observe the present moment, and think of the eye of God, so that we can deal with it calmly and not Nothingness, no anxiety, no narrow-mindedness, no regrets, no jealousy, no greed, no sinking, no triviality, no getting carried away, no sharpness, no depression.

We will embrace time, challenge ourselves from career or family responsibilities, find the beauty of nature or the limits of skills from hobbies, experience happiness from helping others, and overcome inevitable diseases and Test your strength of will and inner freedom in suffering.

I don’t like Freud’s “depth psychology”, it feels more like negativity, explaining for the sake of explanation. Like "height psychology" or because of our experience of reading and happiness in infancy, makes me a "pessimistic optimist".

There are so many possibilities in life, how can there be time for nothingness? Living the Meaning of Life After Reading 10

I was very fascinated by the author’s description of the first half of the book, which gave me a personal understanding of life in the concentration camp, which was full of fear, massacre, violence, inequality, Hungry, twisted. It was like hell, but the author used his wisdom and God's grace to survive. This is a miracle. I remember the author’s description that the people in the concentration camp were skeletons with bones wrapped in paper-like skin and were severely malnourished; every time they were transferred out of the concentration camp, they did not know whether their next destination would be death or continued suffering; One thing to do is to catch all the lice on your body, otherwise you won't sleep well; people in the concentration camp have to work hard to survive in order to survive; when they see people around them having nightmares, they are reluctant to wake them up because they are afraid. He felt that after waking up, he found that the life here was worse than a nightmare... To survive, you need a strong will, and the author did it. Thanks to the peaceful era, ordinary people like us have food to eat, clothing to wear, and sleep to sleep. The various therapies in the second half of the article may be effective, but I didn't read into it. There is a sentence in the comments section at the end of the article that touched me: He strives to inspire us to realize our own abilities and understand that the power of choice can help us. achieve our goals. At the same time, the situation in this world is not good, and we have to do our best, otherwise the situation will only get worse. After-reading notes on living the meaning of life 11

The author proves with facts that even in the concentration camp, he can maintain his dignity as a human being.

On a psychological and spiritual level, basically anyone can decide who they want to be.

How do you view the suffering of concentration camps and the suffering of life?

The meaning of life includes suffering, deprivation and death. Suffering, misfortune and death are integral parts of life. Without suffering and death, human life is incomplete. Dostoyevsky said: "I only fear one thing - that I am not worthy of the pain I suffer." Suffering is meaningful. Of course this does not include avoidable suffering.

The author puts forward the attitude of facing difficulties: "At that moment, I objectively observed and described everything that tortured me from a scientific perspective. Through this method, I successfully transcended the situation and suffering at that time. , it seems that all this has become a thing of the past. I and my pain have become interesting objects of my own psychological research. Spinoza talks about "passion as pain, once we have a clear and clear understanding of it." With a clear understanding, you will no longer feel pain.'"

We can learn from this method. Whenever you work hard in silence and still can't see results, imagine your future success to inspire your current life.

For these objectively inevitable sufferings, others cannot replace your pain. Therefore, there is no use in self-pity.

Munger also believes that self-pity is useless. We often compare ourselves with others and always feel that we have given a lot but still cannot see the rewards, and it is easy for us to feel sorry for ourselves.

It’s not that many rational and happy people have not suffered misfortune, but that they don’t think about how miserable they are and spend their energy on things they think are meaningful. Living the Meaning of Life Review 12

I forced myself to finish reading this book. Reading is inherently a masochistic tendency. It’s not that the content of the book is not good, it’s that the various theories are unfamiliar and difficult to understand for the first time.

Nietzsche’s sentence appears and is applied repeatedly in the article. ——"Those who know why they live can survive."

At the end, the author does not tell us specifically what "logotherapy" and "existential analysis" should do; Why it must be done.

Think often: take a few minutes to ponder the meaning of life, especially the meaning of the days ahead and what it means to me.

We ourselves must answer the questions that life throws at us, and to answer those questions, we must take on the responsibility of life.

To achieve personal meaning, one must transcend subjective happiness by doing something "for something or someone else, or dedicating oneself to a cause or a loved one."

Maintain a positive attitude and give meaning to life.

A positive attitude can not only make people feel happy and satisfied, but also enable people to endure suffering and frustration. A negative attitude exacerbates suffering and diminishes joy, happiness, and satisfaction.

A positive attitude helps create meaning in our lives.

Everything that people can think of and believe they can do will eventually come true; every adversity, every setback, every unpleasant experience will bring seeds of equal or greater benefits. After reading "Living the Meaning of Life" 13

There are many things that I don't understand. This book needs to be read continuously. But there are two points that I understand a little bit. One is that the existence of life requires responsibility. The responsibility as a child, the responsibility as a husband or wife, the responsibility as a parent, etc. is the role you play in this society. And the fun you enjoy in each role should be the meaning of your life.

However, if it is a mentally retarded person or a mental abnormality (born or acquired), what is their responsibility? If there is no responsibility, will their life be meaningless, or is the discussion limited to people who can think normally? ?

Second, experiencing suffering can help you better understand the meaning of life. For example, the author realized the meaning of life from a narrow escape in a concentration camp. It is like running (of course this cannot be called suffering) when you have shortness of breath and dry mouth. When your tongue is dry and your legs are sore, all you can think about is how to persevere, how to increase your speed by 1 second, how to reach 100 meters more. If you continue to break through, you will find the comfort after sweating profusely, and suddenly you will find that running is so Happiness, slowly your physical and mental state will get better and better, oh, this is the meaning of running, maybe this is what Frankl meant. Human life is completely tolerant of all kinds of pain and discomfort, but increasingly comfortable conditions have made more people forget about suffering, and the meaning of life only remains in the satisfaction of desires. So, what is the meaning of living? After reading the meaning of living life 14

The author of this book describes his survival in the concentration camp from the perspective of a psychologist. From another perspective, it is The experimental process of human adaptation under extreme circumstances is of great research value - physiologically and psychologically!

For example:

1. The general value satisfaction and desire needs of the people in the concentration camps have been reduced to the lowest level of "Maslow's hierarchy of needs": bread and cigarettes are enough. It brings them a short-term pleasure like "paradise" - driven by physiological hunger, the brain needs to fully focus on survival functions, just like the frequency reduction of a computer when there is insufficient memory, and humans descend back to the animal level.

2. Seeing the extreme of human psychological adaptability: In the later period of the concentration camp, when the author saw the corpses of the campmates, he felt "completely without feeling", no grief, no fear, no thoughts, even though This is the friend who was chatting in the same group yesterday. Any cruelty in the concentration camp has been taken as a matter of course - boiling frogs in warm water, are frogs also adapted in this way?

The second half of this book talks about "logotherapy".

The author is one of the few survivors of the concentration camp, and an even smaller number of concentration camp survivors who have always maintained their "noble humanity." By looking back on his own personal experience, the author realizes that the "meaning of life" - the love and desire for his wife, as well as the psychological manuscript that must be completed - keep his small universe of energy always online, and finally with the help of the "hand of fate", he can survive catastrophe.

There are some specific cases in the book that explain how "logotherapy" works on ordinary patients. You can read it.

Initial thoughts:

1. Is it similar to the structure of the vision mode in "The Secret"?

2. Would it be better to combine it with the Japanese "Morita Therapy"? The book "Living the Meaning of Life" contains two parts. In the first part, the author talks about his experience in the concentration camp; the second part introduces logotherapy. This therapy helped people find the meaning of rebirth in desperate situations, and also left the most glorious testimony in the history of human nature.

The book introduces logotherapy, which focuses on the meaning of human existence and the pursuit of this meaning.

Logotherapy is neither preaching nor prayer, nor moral exhortation nor logical reasoning. To use a metaphor, the therapist plays the role of an eye specialist rather than a painter. The painter tries to express to us what he sees the world like, while the ophthalmologist tries to let us see for ourselves what the world actually looks like. The role of the logotherapist is to expand the patient's horizons and make him aware of all the potential meaning of his life.

Logotherapy can discover the meaning of life in three different ways: (1) by creating a certain job or engaging in a certain career; (2) by experiencing something or facing someone; (3) Adopt a certain attitude when enduring inevitable suffering.

The author gathers his thoughts on life into every word and sentence in the book. Tell us that no matter how we explain the meaning of life, as long as we know that each of us is a unique existence, a short life is like a mayfly. If we can see through the essence of life, find the source of human beings, recognize the truth of life, and still love us life. This life has truly never been in vain.

As the poet Nietzsche said: "He who knows why to live can survive."