I was brought to Viktor Frankl through Stephen Covey's '7 habits of highly effective people'. To me Frankl's influence is very clear in Covey's book - one has to establish a meaning to his or hers life before life can be fully lived. It sounds so simple but this realisation only came to me at 40 years of age after a difficult few years. I feel so encouraged now to have a really considered what the my meaning is and with that knowledge I feel previously unassailable obstacles can now be overcome. Better late than never!!!!

I read this book 📖 ❤🇦🇺🔦

I like that everything is stored forever. The past, present and future co-exist and cannot be undone.

Exactly!❤

What a wonderful approach- will to meaning.

The ultimate take away here is not to use Self Actualization as a means of discovering meaning in one’s life, but that one should pursue the meaning and self actualization will fall into place gradually as a product of fulfilling one need for meaning.

Can i get the full interview to watch some where?

It’s like going to hunt for food, building the fire to cook the food, prepping the food, cooking it, then having a beautiful dinner. Eating the dinner with your family is self-transcendence and self-actualization is the crap you take after.

We all in nazi(democracy) cage Work in presure.value nothing😅

A great Human being.

Im right it's about evolve not revolve ❤❤🎉🎉

True people are petrified of loving or being loved❤❤🎉🎉

God

Does anyone know why he’s wearing shades?

Bravo Viktor!

Life is suffering tho 😅

Wut

Happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue from a meaningful life

Unless we change it ourselves nothing will change because the owners of the system need us to depend on them and be slaves.

Excellent interview with Victor Frankel. Ouote: It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism, he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. Albert Schweitzer

This idea of the impossibility of losing or annihilating that which is experienced - positive or negative - is close to the Buddhist insight around karmic actions and the law of causality.

One of the first, and intentionally few, books I've read.

Humans long for the life we knew as hunter gatherers. Around 25,000 years ago the husbandry of animals and women began by the males. They also devised a "god" that looked like them (white male). And they claimed to be superior like that god. Thus monotheism was created , along with husbandry of women, as a tool of social control over the women. This was when humans learned aggression. It was a tool of social control for the males. It marks the time humankind lost abundance of all essential resources including sex with anyone and everyone. Males created scarcity of everything for social control. Rules about sho could have sex with whom. Rules about who god is and who he favors. And what god says about women had to be followed. Then they invented child sacrifice to further cow the women. In hunter gather times, the largest time in human history and far exceeding the 25,000 years we have been shoved into castes and roles by agricultural man. In our most natural and happy state as hunter gatherers we valued one another most. Villages were "run" by a wise and lovingly powerful female. Love, food, and a sense of belonging was free to everyone and all felt they belonged. When we are lonely it is because it is unnatural for a human to live alone. When we seek meaning it is because we have been cut off from the natural human condition of feeling loved and supported all the time just for who we are. We don't have to be good all the time to be loved. The best and healthiest society is the one that has no rules. That is the one where evil never occurs. As hunter gatherers every moment was divine. Agricultural man values things over people and so he is lonely inside. Men don't seek to possess women, today, because evolution has motivated them to compete for women. Evolution has only motivated men to feel connecte. Modern society has given a man only one option if he wants to experience love and connection all the time. Modern society says men must be heterosexual and be primed to compete. Neither is true of males in their most natural state. We are bisexual as demonstrated by bonobos and hunter gatherers. Society has the power to shape desire. Think Socrates. Men are evolutionarily primed to be connected. Period. We need to return to sex on tap with anyone and everyone at anytime both consent. No more nuclear families and no more competition for love. Hunter gatherers knew full abundance because they didn't possess anyone or anything. That is where humans should head again.

Prof. dr Frankl is the proper guiding light. ❤

I think animals also have meaning. We all play a part in the unfolding of the cosmos. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The same as is with things that can’t communicate with us. Who’s not to say that because of a certain field mouse a certain lion was born, who in turn, ate a future suppressive dictator that would have killed millions. We all play a part.

Amazing how a man who went through so much and had so much wisdom was asked questions in a way that someone would ask a grad student, he’s humble

Vielen Dank für die stets aktuellen interessanten Ideen.

I have read "Man's Search for Meaning" and it is an amazing bookall should read! A helpful aid in hard times ahead that we are looking at as I type this.

The Akashic Memory or field is where nothing is ever lost.

Amazingly simple but astonishingly wise!

A truly inspirational man

Those shades are perfect

It never cease to perturb me - why people insist on putting misleading Titles to their videos. .. This one is ABSOLUTELY Useful and Worthy of Watching. and has ZERO to do with "self-actualization".. Thanks to "Noetic Films" for posting it, but - seriously - they could easily acquire viewers by simply posting it as "Viktor Frankl - eye opening interview" or probably 16 other less-misleading titles. :( . . I benefitted from listening [and reading the transcript due to low volume], and shared it with Facebook friends.. just a tad annoying. i suppose it seemed like a good title at the time to whoever chose to assign that to it. <3

Ernüchternd, berührend ! Danke sehr fürs Hineinstellen!

He set the bar high.

3:28🎉 5:08🎉 9:03🎉

We all have a legacy even those of us whose names will be forgotten. The love or hate we show to others ripple out for all time.

Thanks

If nothing was never done, how can "you" ever undo it?

Is anyone else noticing the uncanny similarities with this interviewer and Lex Fridman? They conduct their interviews very similarly and even sound alike

The wish to fulfill meaning is how, not why.

Why is he wearing sunglasses?

Wie fühlt sich das an, wenn man Holocaust mit Atombombe ersetzt?

I wish I knew german😢

guy's got really small hands.

I agree with his views on pampered childhood.

Every one should read Frankles book Man’s search of meaning ! Thank you for sharing this interview with us .

The interviewer should've not interrupt Frankl so much! Good interview tho!

What I see more is what Marx described as alienation. Frankl seems too locked up into a notion of meaning when the emphasis might better be placed on the relational.

I can't say that I understand the meaning of my life. I guess it's to serve society and strangers. I would prefer to serve myself and my family, if I had one. If you could serve yourself that would make serving others better. For a benefit of the self. And not a forced service that takes meaning away from help. If you have your own needs met it makes it easier to fulfill and want to help others with their wants and needs. You can't prepare others without being prepared yourself.