Key insights from
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
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Published Mar 23, 2020
What you'll learn
Author of the international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl wrote a series of essays within a year of his release from Nazi concentration camps. These essays, originally published in 1946, were recently published in English for the first time.
Key insights
- 1 The horrors of Nazism show us what happens when people become means to ends instead of ends in and of themselves.
- 2 Optimism and pessimism are both fatalisms that prevent us from acting meaningfully in life.
- 3 The best defenses against fatalism are remembering the individual human life and prioritizing meaningful action over mere words.
- 4 Neither pleasure nor its absence has the power to diminish the meaning of someone’s life.
- 5 The question is not what we can expect from life, but what life can expect from us.
- 6 How well you occupy the space that’s yours matters far more than how big or small that space is.
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