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4 different perspectives on happiness to help you find your meaning in life;
- Psychiatrist Victor Frank’s perspective.
- The stoic perspective.
- Epicurus’ perspective.
- Epictetus’ perspective.
Victor Frankl’s perspective on happiness.
“What man actually needs is the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”
Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Victor Frankl believed that a fundamental aspect of the human experience was the ability to create meaning from pain or suffering.
The Stoic perspective on happiness.
“The correct grasp of human happiness shows that it consists in living in accord with nature, which requires living in accordance with virtue in preference to any other aim.”
— Cicero, De Officiis III, 21–8
Stoicism was a philosophical school of thought and lifestyle with roots going back to Socrates and popularized by Zeno of Citium nearly a century later. Stoics held to a few foundational beliefs. These included:
- The imperative to live in accordance with nature.
