Meaning and Answering the Call to Adventure | Academy of Ideas
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- Apr 3, 2019
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"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
– attributed to Nietzsche in Academy of Ideas:
Victor Frankl: Logotherapy and Man's Search for Meaning
Nothing contributes more to a meaningless existence than boredom.
Frankl held that each person had the opportunity to realize meaning in their life at a person level.
[Frank's theory of logotherapy] considers man as a being whose main concern consists of fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drivers and instincts.
The key tenant of [Frankl's logotherapy] is that the pursuit of meaning ... is the primary motivational factor in humans ... contrasting Freud's "pursuit of pleasure" or Adler's "pursuit of power" primary factors.
"The truth is that the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Even more people today have the means to live but no meaning to live for."
– by Victor Frankl in "Unheard Cry"
in Academy of Ideas: Victor Frankl: Logotherapy and Man's Search for Meaning
"No instinct tells [humankind] what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).
– attributed to Victor Frankl in Academy of Ideas:
Victor Frankl: Logotherapy and Man's Search for Meaning
Consensus does not mean truth.
"Walled in boredom, hard work, or 'culture,' the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved."
– attributed to Joseph Campbell in Academy of Ideas:
Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Hero's Journey
What i think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss."
– by Joseph Campbell in "Pathways to Bliss" in Academy of Ideas:
Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Hero's Journey
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Victor Frankl: Logotherapy and Man's Search for Meaning
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