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What is the Significance of Your Life?
Men Living with Meaning
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What is Significance?
Søren Kierkegaard Jean-Paul Sartre
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Friedrich Nietzsche
"Existence precedes essence…”
A human exists first before they have meaning in life
“What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall
do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for
which I am willing to live and die.”
Finding one's values, beliefs, and purpose in a meaningless world
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've
wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
Self-analysis may give an individual meaning and differentiates humans from
other mammals
Making free choices regarding fundamental values and beliefs changes
the nature and identity of the chooser
“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
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5W1HI keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child
What Why
When
HowWhere
Who
Defining Significance
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What
Significance: from the Latin significantia -
“meaning, force, energy”
Joshua Cristall (English, c.1767-1847). Hercules Dragging Cerberus
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Why
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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When
Calavera oaxaqueña by José Guadalupe Posada
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.” !
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Act II, scene 2, line 33.
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How
Values Congruence Strong Sense of Identity Strong Sense of Purpose
Understanding of Communication Self-Actualizing
Emotional Management Personal Development Map
Natural Rights Individualism
A Network of Similar Minded Individuals
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Where
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us;
the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay
ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and
where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
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~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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Who
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What is the Status Quo?
"In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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Significance = Choosing Your Own Meaning
• Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
• Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
• We have inalienable freedom to find meaning.
Viktor Frankl