I consider Man’s Search for Meaning to be the best book I have ever read.
After countless people getting in touch with me after writing this article on Man’s Search for Meaning, I thought it was about time to sit down and have a chat about it.
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Topics Covered in the Podcast (with Timestamps)
Feel free to jump to any particular theme that interests you:
- 0:38 – Becoming a new father and drastic life changes
- 2:57 – My most read article of all time
- 4:09 – “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” (Nietzsche)
- 5:15 – Auschwitz, Dachau, and the atrocities of the 20th century
- 7:04 – Reality of life in the camps
- 7:55 – The three big whys: love, work, and dignity in suffering
- 9:18 – It does not matter what you expect from life
- 10:00 – A remedy for depression
- 10:55 – Virtue is a habit, an act
- 11:45 – Everyone’s destiny is different – you designate your own meaning
- 12:21 – The confiscated manuscript
- 14:50 – Recommended Frankl lecture (also below)
- 15:14 – “The salvation of man is through love and in love.” (Frankl)
- 16:40 – Love conquers all and is an antidote to pain
- 17:31 – How to deal with suicidal thoughts
- 20:55 – What is prayer?
- 21:32 – You can get used to anything – the human body is tougher than you think
- 22:24 – “Textbooks tell lies.” (Frankl)
- 23:05 – “Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” (Adorno)
- 23:53 – The ultimate life perspective machine
- 24:51 – You can resist your environment’s influence
- 25:00 – The Stanford Prison Experiments (Zimbardo)
- 25:35 – How good people turn evil
- 27:00 – “Between stimulus and response there is a gap.” (Frankl)
- 27:50 – On free will
- 28:43 – The last of human freedoms
- 29:36 – There is meaning in suffering
- 30:26 – You don’t even know what suffering is
- 32:15 – Jordan Peterson on nihilism
- 32:45 – Pick up your cross
- 33:38 – Are you worthy of your suffering?
- 34:45 – How to reframe your problems
- 35:38 – Without hope, without meaning, and without a future, death will come soon.
- 37:00 – The Miracle Morning
- 39:11 – Hope increases your survival rate
- 39:38 – Who Man’s Search for Meaning is for
Mentioned in the podcast:
- The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Jordan Peterson (read 12 Rules for Life)
- The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod