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Greta Garbo - Quotes

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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
 
Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
 
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Educating for a better world

  

Education is the movement from darkness to light...Real #education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity..

#JoyTRAIN #TuesdayThoughts #SuccessTRAIN

PERMA - Professor Martin Seligman discusses his foirmula for wellbeing: PERMA

  

Professor Martin Seligman discusses his formula for well-being: PERMA

PERMA
is an acronym for a model of well-being put forth by a pioneer in the
field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman. According to Seligman,
PERMA makes up five important building blocks of well-being and
happiness:

• Positive emotions – feeling good
• Engagement – being completely absorbed in activities
• Relationships – being authentically connected to others
• Meaning – purposeful existence
• Achievement – a sense of accomplishment and success

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper & Row.Seligman, M. E. (2011). Flourish. North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia

Steptoe, A., & Diez Roux, A. V. (2008). Happiness, social networks, and health. British Medical Journal. 

Link: https://youtu.be/iK6K_N2qe9Y

Source: https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/perma-a-well-being-theory-by-martin-seligman/

Frankl: He who has a WHY can bear any HOW | Hannibal and Me

Frankl: He who has a WHY can bear any HOW

by Andreas Kluth on September 15, 2009

Despair = Suffering – Meaning

So Viktor Frankl says in the video above, summarizing his theory of logotherapy, which I’ve read at greater length in his book Man’s Search for Meaning. In other words, if people suffer but see meaning in their life, and even in their suffering, they do not despair, as he himself did not despair when he was in Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
He is therefore, as he also says in this video, the anti-Sartre. Sartre and the other existentialists believed that we have to accept the meaninglessness of our existence. I, in my black-turtleneck and Gauloise phase (everyone has one), used to think that was cool. But Frankl thinks it is nonsense.
Or rather, he thinks that it is unhealthy and unhelpful. Hence logotherapy, which

focuses rather on the future, that is to say, on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in his future. (Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy).

He calls it logotherapy because

Logos is a Greek word which denotes “meaning.” Logotherapy, or, as it has been called by some authors, “The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,” focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man’s search for such a meaning.

According to logotherapy,

this striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man. That is why I speak of a will to meaning in contrast to the pleasure principle (or, as we could also term it, the will to pleasure) on which Freudian psychoanalysis is centered, as well as in contrast to the will to power on which Adlerian psychology, using the term “striving for superiority,” is focused.

Speaking of the will to power, Frankl likes to quote Nietzsche:

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” I can see in these words a motto which holds true for any psychotherapy. In the Nazi concentration camps, one could have witnessed that those who knew that there was a task waiting for them to fulfill were most apt to survive.

Those people who do see meaning in their lives, says Frankl, are able to

transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

And here you see how this is relevant for my book, which is about the two impostors, triumph and disaster.

Critique

I want to agree with Frankl, but the trouble starts when he describes how he applies his approach to actual therapy. To me it sounds like semantic trickery. He meets desperate people and tries to change their attitude, but really he only does some conceptual gymnastics and calls that meaning.

Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife who had died two years before and whom he had loved above all else. Now, how could I help him? What should I tell him? Well, I refrained from telling him anything but instead confronted him with the question, “What would have happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your wife would have had to survive you?” “Oh,” he said, “for her this would have been terrible; how she would have suffered!” Whereupon I replied, “You see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it was you who have spared her this suffering—to be sure, at the price that now you have to survive and mourn her.” He said no word but shook my hand and calmly left my office. In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

I don’t doubt that the old man, out of love for his wife, preferred to bear the pain of being the survivor so that she did not have to. But his wife was still gone. His job (surviving her) was done. Pointing out that he had saved her pain did not give him meaning for his life from that point forward.
So my critique of logotherapy is really the same as my critique of religion: Sure, it might be helpful to see meaning (= believe in God), but that does not mean that there actually is meaning (=God). Sartre might be right after all.
That said, I am impressed enough with Frankl to include him in my pantheon of great thinkers.




Frankl: He who has a WHY can bear any HOW | Hannibal and Me


 LINK: http://andreaskluth.org/2009/09/15/frankl-he-who-has-a-why-can-bear-any-how/

Thomas Edison, 1931

  

Thomas Edison, 1931 

Native American Pride

   

  

    

  

Changing Worlds is a great concept and not unlike the idea of reincarnation.  Better if you don't like the idea of returning to this revolving slaughter house.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.  - Spinoza

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith -- no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of of intoxication, that alone.  - Omar Khayyam

Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Original David Mallet...

  

Freddie Mercury and  Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Original David Mallet Video 1987)

Link: https://youtu.be/5V2vuoqD-bA

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Marie Kondo: "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" | Talks at Google

 

Marie Kondo: "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up"

This #1 New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from 

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step 

through her revolutionary  

KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing,
and storing.

Producer

Lee Austin Stimmel

Link: https://youtu.be/w1-HMMX_NR8

  

Leonard Cohen - Anthem (w/lyrics) London 2008

Link: https://youtu.be/6wRYjtvIYK0