InMan’s Search for Meaning
, the neurologist and psychiatrist VictorFrankl wrote about his experience as a concentration camp inmate during the Second World War.
Frankl’s theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (“meaning”)-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
According to The School of Life, there are four things that make life meaningful:
1. Helping others.
What makes li...
Published on September 08, 2015 23:16