Who said a man who lacks purpose distracts himself with pleasure?

Q: When people can t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure?

Shane Parrish on Twitter: When a person cant find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor Frankl / Twitter.

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"When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."

— Viktor Frankl
— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) September 15, 2021

There is nothing wrong with pleasure. It’s an important part of a rich life and can also be a vital part of healing – both physical and emotional.

At the same time, if we seek pleasure in order to distract ourselves, it may be good to notice and explore what’s behind it. What do I try to distract myself from? What are the uncomfortable sensations? What are the uncomfortable thoughts (beliefs, identifications) connected with these?

And can I find more meaning in my life? What’s meaningful to me? How can I bring it into life a little more? Some of these things may be apparently small and yet important for us.

I agree with Victor Frankl in that when we have a life we experience as rich and meaningful, we don’t need so much to distract ourselves with pleasure. And yet, there are a few more things going on here.

One is that pleasure is an important part of a rich human life.

Another is what we distract ourselves from, which is good to explore in itself.

And yet another is that when we have (develop, nurture) a life we experience as meaningful, we don’t need to distract ourselves with pleasure. We enjoy pleasure and we have less need to compulsively seek pleasure in order to distract ourselves from discomfort, including the discomfort of a less meaningful life.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure - Viktor Frankl. Katha Upanishad and Buddhism explain the cause of suffering and the difference between the good and the pleasant; explaining that a good life is based on choosing the good in our daily life.[more in comment] from philosophy

When people can t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure?

Shane Parrish on Twitter: ""When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure." — Viktor Frankl" / Twitter.

What does Frankl say about meaninglessness?

One of his favorite metaphors is the existential vacuum. If meaning is what we desire, then meaninglessness is a hole, an emptiness, in our lives. Whenever you have a vacuum, of course, things rush in to fill it. Frankl suggests that one of the most conspicuous signs of existential vacuum in our society is boredom.