MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING BY VIKTOR FRANKL – MY FAVORITE IDEAS ANIMATED

MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING BY VIKTOR FRANKL – MY FAVORITE IDEAS ANIMATED

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  1. What's up guys! 🙂 This is a book that I could never do justice with a video. I didn't even feel right calling this a "review." I took my favorite ideas and animated them, but this should be required reading if you like the channel. 🙂 It is an absolutely amazing book, and Viktor's story is unbelievable. Anyway, hope you enjoy the video! 🙂

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  2. "Pursuit of Happyness"

    If you're going to talk about a movie instead of the book you SAY you're going talk about in the video title, at least be accurate with the movie title.

  3. I don't think the character in pursuit of happiness saw being a stockbroker as the path to happiness. He saw being able to provide for his son and feeling masculine enough to provide for his family (which is understandeble because he got rejected by just that by his wife, so it's his previous experiences and thoughts that made his meaning his unique meaning) as the path to fulfillment. That was for him the meaning of his life. And that made him happy. Being a stockbroker was just a path to that. Also he did choose his response. When he saw the stockbroker in the fancy car he could have gotten angry, frustrated or jealous that that wasn't him and blame the world that he didn't get the same chances… instead he chose to see it as an inspiration and to fight hard to get to that place himself. It's still a 'American' version that includes succes, masculinity, and money but it can still be related to the ideas from Man's search for meaning in my opinion. Even Frankl's ideas about suffering and how that can be part of your unique meaning of life is in there.

  4. The movie story is not stupid. It is based on a real person's life.
    Just like you being happy with getting enough money for a pastry, that man was happy to gain a good-paying job that will get him enough for not only pastries, but enough to support his child, for enough food, for shelter, and for bills. He wasn't unhappy with a $100 steak not being cooked the way he wanted, it was all the stress, the homelessness, the concern for his child.
    The only thing that is stupid is today's complexity of getting a career. Wish it was only a 6-month internship like Chris Gardner had. Bachelor's degrees have become obsolete. Now a Master's degree is the minimum needed to be able to compete for a career. More college degrees are being required even though getting hired can still depend on who the hiring managers want, even if they aren't as qualified as the other candidates (Nepotism; bias)

  5. If your basic needs aren't covered (shelter, safety, food), don't expect to be grateful and happy. You will strive to have a certain level of comfort before reflecting on whether you're happy or not. It really sounds like this spiritual delusional bs, when you walk around half-naked in the street and thank life for your situation, because you control your "response". Just get real! It's true that you can find reasons to be content (you may be healthy and alive), but otherwise you are free to set up goals and seek better future where you can "experience more". I'm not sure that the author of this channel was happy back in his home country despite the pastry episode, this is why he used whatever opportunity he had to get to US and change his circumstances. The idea of being happy in any situation because of your "free will to choose your response" is ridiculous at best, delusional at worst (like when you're so religious that you convinced yourself that everything is for a reason and that you will be happy in the afterlife or something).

  6. The moment you talked about being able to choose a response, I knew this was empty. 90% of the time, when you touch an extremely hot pan, you're most likely to flinch. You have some control over your responses, but to act as though that control is all just choice is premature.

  7. stopped watching at "medium well". I should have figured you are an idiot(not in the dostoevskian way) earlier though, when you started talking about happiness.

  8. I think it's pretty legit to complain about your bad childhood and you're no better if you prevail under the same circumstances.
    Sure your life must be great but that doesn't mean that the other person's a Looser (as it has been portrayed in the vid). You could have used a better example Bad childhood is a thing that's way too personal for someone mate.
    That's all….

  9. you can never be that person, so don't even try. would you even want to be? i guess we could argue that a lot of inspiration and creativity is spawned by great suffering, but who would willingly choose it? comfort is way too appealing to most.

  10. I really respect your videos! Keep them coming! If I may chime in — first the movie is called "The Pursuit of Happyness" and spelled that way for a reason. The author pursued becoming a stock broker with such fervor because he wanted a better life for him and his family — better than living in poverty on the streets. He was suggesting, I believe, not that money solved ALL problems but that it does solve SOME problems. And indeed we are happier when we enjoy some creature comforts and don't see our family and loved ones suffering without them.

  11. The house and birth certificate analogy is pretty bad. It obviously depends on how big your house is because it'll take longer to find it. You're not even supposed to find happiness. We evolved to feel happy, to feel sad, to feel anger, to feel pain because it helped us survive. The universe doesn't care whether you're happy or sad

  12. I think there's a flaw in your conclusions about those people from your past, who are apparently mostly drug-addicts now. That said, you are doing well and I'm happy for it. And I definitely agree with your rhetoric about being equally happy riding bus/riding a ferarri and cheap pastry/expensive steak. Or otherwise non of it matters.

    I really think you could re-think the conclusion you made about those drug addicts. Because now it sounds as if it is as simple as making a choice to prevent or get out of addiction/trouble. While it should actually be about learning to recognize that there is indeed that space where you can actually make rational choice, rather than just react on impulse. But this process takes trial and error, and it's very important to continually forgive yourself as you learn.

    Whether you meant to or not, in that small part of the video, it sounds as if you have a (very little) amount of survivor-ship bias. Where you think your success depended solely on you yourself, and their failure depended solely on themselves. Which is a judgement no-one can really make, because you don't know literally everything about that person.

    And you might think both of situations were exactly the same, because you indeed both had problematic parents and/or little opportunities. Yet you have no clue where your insights came from, who or what inspired them (possibly your grandma or who knows). While the drug-addicts life was devoid of such inspiration…

    That said, that lack of inspiration in peoples lives, is exactly why video's like yours are so important. Just be careful with over-simplifying those kinds of things, because you might actually take-away even more hope for these people. And they already have so very little.

    I speak from experience as an alcohol-addict. The judgements that are so frequently and easily passed onto people, are even more damaging than the drug itself. Because they hurt you to the core of your soul, and damaging your body to numb that pain becomes impossible not to do. And I don't think you have the necessary experience YET, to apply the wisdom of Viktor Frankl onto people who struggle like that.

  13. I feel like all this stuff about just “choose to be happy” is kinda fucked imo. I have a good life and appreciate everything around me, but every moment of every day I just wanna get hit by a train and die.