Happiness cannot be pursued – Best advice ever.

Tonny Robins recommends this book. Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for meaning. I’m only thirteen pages into it but I had to stop to share this with you.

“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”

Allow me to share my motto now. Those who compromise their dreams just to feel financially safe, commit a crime against themselves and humanity.”

Guys, the stakes are high here. You’re here in the world for a specific reason. If you don’t do what you’re supposed to do, I lose, we all lose. Meaning means you use your talents to serve other people. Don’t waste your time please just to make money. We need your talents. We need your light. You’ll get a lot more in return than you’ve ever imagined if you give us your light. Please, take a piece of paper, switch off your phones, go for a walk in the park, in the forest, sit on a bench by the sea and write down what you’re here for and how you can give your light to us. This is not a joke. It’s damn serious.

Kindness and smiles, Angelos

Angelos

PS: After sharing this video on social media, I’ve received so much feedback and extra food for thought. So, this is what you’ve suggested

1)  Here is a free audiobook of Man’s Search for Meaning on YouTube.

2) Here are some great notes on the book by Joseph Rodrigues.

3) Maria Egorova suggested that the same rule applies to education. Mastering a skill is a byproduct of one’s curiosity about what they’re learning. For example, fluency in a foreign language. Fluency is not the goal. The goal is enjoying the foreign language, communicating with other people, watching a film, having fun. If you do all this, fluency just comes to you effortlessly.

Thank you all!