Summary Of Man's Search For Meaning By Emily Esfanahi Smith

In the article from Emily Esfanahi Smith, There’s more to Life than Being Happy, we discover new facts about people’s lives and what it really is to be happy. The author starts us off with Victor Frankl a Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist, and the author of Man's Search for Meaning. Smith uses Frankl’s novel to give us glimpse of what she is trying to say through Frankl. She briefly summarizes the novel and describes events that lead to other people living life. The novel describes the time of a Jewish man living in a concentration camp in World War Two, how Frankl says “that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them" (paragraph 3). She gets to her point by stating “the pursuit of happiness is associated with selfish behavior.”
Smith offers data from the Center of Disease Control, the Gallop, and Journal of Positive Sociology to back her ideas. The Gallop says that sixty percent of Americans say they are happy, however four out of ten Americans say they are not discovered a satisfying life purpose. The Journal of Positive Sociology provides a survey a happy life is a result of “taking” while a meaningful one is a result of “giving.” She is saying a happy life means you preform acts that benefit a person’s wants and needs. But the more important aspect of life is finding meaning in it. The question is how to achieve the meaning of life and which is more beneficial, being happy or finding