We can discover our purpose only if

we interact with the world or

determine what the world needs
We can find out the meaning of our life in 3 different
ways:
1) By creating work or doing a deed
2) By experiencing or encountering someone
3) By the attitude we take toward unavoidable
suffering
The first one lies in achievement and accomplishment.
Creative pursuits like writing a book, painting,
sharing stories about sufferings and life experiences,
by solving today’s problems with science and
technology inventions, that can help others, we’ll only
find out when we get started and engage with the
world, so other people’s need become apparent. The
benefit of performing good deeds doesn’t need an
explanation. But it doesn’t have to be grandiose, even
sharing a small piece of bread with a starting inmate can
be a profoundly meaning experience.
The second lies with the connections we have or find
with people and things. The experience of life itself,
caring about the environment, and its people can be
meaningful itself. Frankl describes this as love, as he
argues that it requires love to know something or
someone truly. “The second way of finding a meaning
in life is by experiencing something-such as goodness,
truth, and beauty-by experiencing nature and culture
or last but not least, by experiencing another human
being in his very uniqueness-by loving him.”
The third one lies in finding meaning in suffering.
Frankl gives an example of a practitioner who consulted
him because of his severe depression after losing his life.
Instead of telling him what to do, he asked: “What would
have happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your
wife would have to survive you?” and “Oh, for her, this
would have been terrible and how would she have
suffered!” Frankl pointed out that doctor’s wife has been
spared from such suffering, and he spared her by paying
the price: that he has survived and now mourns her.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we
are challenged to change ourselves, by changing our
attitude we can change adversity into triumph; we can
find meaning, even within the worst situations
imaginable.

SUMMARY
Finding something to live (and even die for), transforms
and meaningless. hopeless existence into a life worth living,
regardless of any circumstances. “He who has why to live
can bear almost any ‘how’”