A More Reliable And Meaningful Aim Than Happiness
Frankl’s formula to experience a life of meaning was pragmatic and threefold: Take action creating a work or performing a deed. Experience something or encounter someone that you find captivating and that pulls you out of yourself. Have an optimistic attitude toward the inevitable challenges and suffering you will experience in life.
Donald Miller • Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life
His logotherapy framework posits that humans thrive when they have a “why” to live for, often forged in hardship. A life too comfortable risks stripping us of that “why,” leaving us adrift like so many of us today.
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Real, serious, lifelong fulfillment and meaning have to be earned through the choosing and managing of our struggles.