Exploring Life's Purpose: A Man's Journey to Find Meaning

Ranin Aki: There are genuinely few books that everyone would benefit from reading, objectively speaking. This is one of them, and the reason is that lack of meaning is a universal plague to the human condition. We will all face the question of meaning in all aspects of our lives eventually. This book offers solutions and examples, and is best not spoiled but left to the reader to experience directly.

United States on Jan 14, 2024

Arcus: This book provides an interesting perspective about the meaning. You may not agree with it, and there is plenty of chit-chat to ready though, but highly recommend for those that strive to find more meaning in life.

Canada on Jan 05, 2024

cerewan: I found this helpful. How to cope with suffering guilt and death....Develop a tragic optimism. Take responsibility to act. Bring in meaning. Now there is a challenge.

United Kingdom on Jan 02, 2024

Nessi: An einem Tag fertig gelesen. Sehr gutes Buch, berührende Geschichte, kann ich aus Herzen empfehlen

Germany on Dec 21, 2023

Kike Vanegas: This book does seem intended to help you find meaning, but to inspire you to do so by knowing that even in the face of the worst adversity it is within our nature to thrive. I think the center question of this book is to discover what triggers that in us.

Spain on Nov 25, 2023

Rodrigo M.: Esse livro me ajudou muito a colocar meus problemas em perspectiva, tornando-me mais grato por tudo que tenho na vida.

O momento do livro que ele está dormindo no meio de outros em um degrau me marcou bastantes. Todos os dias tenho o luxo de dormir na minha cama. Às vezes tenho dificuldades para dormir e agora sempre vem a minha cabeça que sou extremamente privilegiado e que as coisas poderiam estar muito piores.

Esse é um exemplo simples de aplicação prática do livro, mas para mim foi muito marcante em vários aspectos.

Brazil on Mar 02, 2023

Black Panda: It's not exactly a review but some thoughts after reading this book and observing current events.

Can you imagine life being upended in a matter of weeks? You were forced to board a train to Auschwitz for a new life of unknowns. When you arrived, you were either directed to the left or to the right. You and your family were separated. You were instructed to go right while the rest of your family were instructed to go left. The life for the right group turned out to be half a decade of dehumanizing tortures. As for the left group, they were murdered within 24 hours of arrival to Auschwitz. You learned about the fate of the left group by realizing what all the smokes were rising above the structure your family went into. I was in shock and disbelief when I read about this in Man’s Search for Meaning but this crazy thing DID happen 80 years ago, just a few years before my parents were born. How could this world be so barbaric?

Before Auschwitz, most people were living a fairly normal life worrying about paying their bills, raising their family, advancing their careers, etc just like us ordinary beings today. People know there’s war but I doubt people thought about...

United States on May 23, 2022

Bret Aulgur: I recently completed a master's in counseling and guidance and have been reading to find a set of books that will best address some of the disorders in the DSM-IV. Following is a list I have put together from my reading so far, and these are books that I would HIGHLY recommend. I would like to say up front that the DSM-IV is full of very normal behaviors that for some reason have become magnified or exaggerated in an individual to the point of causing a negative impact in their daily lives. Take OCD for example, it is quite normal and even preferable (from a safety perspective) to check and be sure that one has turned off all the burners on the stove after cooking, or to be sure the back door is locked before going to bed. But to continue checking time and again would be problematic and can lead to problems in an individual's life. Something is diagnosed as a disorder when it moves from being a "normal" activity to being something that causes dysfunction in daily living. So, one may read the DSM-IV and see themselves reflected in many of the disorders. The question is always: is this behavior negatively impacting my life? If so then that is when it crosses the line of normal and...

United States on Aug 12, 2012