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Alex gives a very easy follow perspective on living a meaningful & fulfilling life by being engaged in the workplace & in your life. Although many authors have touched certain aspects of this subject before, Alex did a wonderful job in presenting a comprehensive viewpoint through a real life story & then offering practical suggestions that anybody could use. Highly recommend this book. No matter what stage in life you are in, you will be inspired.
In our reaction lies our growth and our freedom. He was convinced that man is impressed by a longing for sense and meaning which can even survive unliving circumstances. Second: between stimulus and reaction is a space in which it is up to us to chose the right reaction. Man is a being who decides himself what he is, no matter how the circumstances are. A master of decision is what man is. Being a personality is that what matters. He let experiences of his life flow into his recognition. But he was not limited to own dogmas.
Nothing really new. Fourth: you can take away everything from man, but not: the last freedom to position oneself in face of the given circumstances. This knowledge was one of the findings of Frankl from his experiences in the concentration camp. Therefore his maxim was to say "yes" to life "nevertheless". Third: if we are no longer able to change our situation (in a concentration camp) we have to change ourselves. Frankl was in succession of Freud and Adler. The book of Hiob, written some thousand years ago depicts a man who had all, he lost all, but he never gave away his confidence that he had to carry on and wait for the right answer to this. And personalities are more than molecules, they are whatfore the world is made.
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3MCR7HR4DCSU3 Dr. Pattakos' book can be very liberating for those of us (most of us).It helps us find meaning in our life, and ultmately freedom & inner peace.Alkistis Agiorgiti Ph.D.
They pressured Coca Cola to intervene in the murder of worker who wanted to unionize the Coca Cola bottling plant in Guatemala. Pattakos calls meaning the megatrend of the 21st century and I hope he's right. After 12 deaths, the shareholders spoke up, Coke spoke up in turn, the murders finally stopped. Most people are disgusted with corporate greed, golden parachutes and assorted scandals on Wall Street and other financial markets around the world. "It almost seems as though meaning holds forgiveness at its core," Pattakos tells us, "when we forgive ourselves and others, we are no longer prisoners of our thoughts." In my own work as a documentary filmmaker, I have tried to bring a breath and depth of meaning to the content and the making of my films. Ideas don't merely float by on the page. For many of us Mandela epitomizes a life's work filled with meaning.
He encourages us as readers to work interactively with his basic principles to cement them in truly practical ways in our lives. In Prisoner's of Our Thoughts, Pattakos gives us both reminders and important new ideas, as well as exercises with which to discover and apply meaning to our work. Pattakos also give us rich examples of people who work with meaning in all kinds of jobs. It was this film that brought me to Viktor Frankl, a survivor of the concentration camps like my parents, who also lived and worked with meaning and humanity throughout their imprisonment and throughout their lives.
All those who have been enlightened by Viktor Frankl's great book, Man's Search for Meaning, will be profoundly grateful to Alex Pattakos for bringing Frankl's principles alive again in our own search for meaning in our everyday personal and working lives. Pattakos brings us a step further in Mandela's experience to the moment he is released. For the briefest moment he feels anger over having lost twenty-seven years of his life to prison, then realizing that this was not the time to become imprisoned again in his mind. In The Cola Conquest, I interviewed a man who was part of a group of shareholders concerned with the social responsibility of their companies - an uncommon concept back in the late 90's. There's Tom, the CEO who invites his employees to share in a meaning-based bottom line, encouraging volunteerism and giving 10% of his profits to local and global concerns. But my most meaningful film I will ever make is Dark Lullabies, about the reverberations of the Holocaust on the children of survivors and the next generations of Germans. Most people are tired of our own everyday race through work and looking for something to enrich our daily jobs. More recently, in Black Coffee, I explored the search for meaning through the historical and contemporary story of coffee.
There's Vita, the mail carrier, who whistles as she delivers the mail, even in bad weather, because she sees her job as connecting people and building a community. And there is Nelson Mandela. The three-hour series ends with the search for the "perfect cup" - the cup we enjoy best as consumers because it tastes great, it's great for the farmer who grows it, and for the environment in which it grows. I am grateful to Pattakos for giving new meaning and application to Frankl's work, and have already begun the fulfilling task of enriching my own work with Pattakos' suggestions and ideas.
Mr. Yet you are proud. Addressing an unsuspecting (at most) American audience he largely manages to get away with it.Unfortunately for him, some of us still remember the greek military junta, the thousands of people that got killed and tortured, the thousands that were sent to exile, and the great tragedy of Cyprus for which the junta was largely responsible. The author paints a very deceptive portrait of his "beloved" uncle Mr. Alex Pattakos abandoned Greece for the USA circa 1973-74 when democracy was restored, probably because he was feeling that the too much "love" that the repressed people of Greece felt for his "patriot" uncle could kill him. You should be ashamed sir for what your uncle did to Greece and to the Greek people.
Alex Pattakos writes and capitalizes on a book inspired by Viktor Frankl a Nazi camp survivor.Judge for yourself if you can trust the writings of a person who idolizes one of the cruelest dictators of recent history.
Pattakos as Nelson Mandela.
Also for the record, your uncle did not get out of prison in 1995 because "his role in history was reconsidered and because there was enough support for him as a person" but because of his grave health condition.
Stylianos Pattakos and even dares to compare him to Nelson Mandela (see beginning of chapter 4).
I am disgusted.
Better try Hitler.
How ironic indeed that Mr.
You see, a democracy can have mercy even for the ultimate traitors.I wouldn't be surprised if Mr.
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