This book sounds heavy. I consider myself a pragmatist. If it was two months ago, just reading the title of the book was the kind I avoided, the meaning of life? Is it useful to discuss such illusory things? Can you adjust your mood to cope with parenting problems or help develop good living habits?
One advantage of listening to Fan Deng's reading is that even if you don't like the book, it won't be too contradictory to listen to the explanation. Just listen while doing housework, it won't take up time. As a result, the closed window opened a crack and the sun shone in.
The older you get, the more fragile you become, especially after having children. You can't hear any sad voice. Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II is synonymous with misery. What would happen if something similar happened to me? I dare not think.
In that unimaginable environment, the author Victor frankl experienced the pain of purgatory, but he initiated the meaning therapy and found the meaning of life. What keeps people alive is not hope, but meaning.
It is often said that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. So some people even gave up hope. Without hope, what can people rely on to move forward and find meaning? People still have the freedom to choose their attitudes and behaviors in any environment, even in Auschwitz.
In the second half of the lecture, Yang Xia talked about "Pursuing the meaning of life at work". The most difficult thing for people to change is not habits, but values. Have a goal in life and understand the meaning and responsibility of life.
The following is an excerpt:
Three ways to find the meaning of life. According to the meaning therapy, we can find the meaning of life in three different ways:
1, by creating a job or undertaking a career;
2. By experiencing something or facing some people (pursuing truth, goodness and beauty or falling in love with someone);
3. Have an attitude when enduring the inevitable suffering.