Be a student, not a victim. Find the meaning in the bad and learn lessons from life. Viktor Frankl, a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, wrote an inspiring book about the benefits of student-not-victim mentality called Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl purports that those who survived concentration camps were not necessarily more physically robust. Survivors chose to find meaning in their suffering, which kept them alive and thriving. In other words, they had a student-not-victim mentality. Frankl practiced what he preached. He believed he was meant to survive the Holocaust so he could write to help others survive terrible times by searching for meaning.
Happiness Assignment: When feeling down, recite this Frankl quote: “It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.”
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