Career Aspiration - Compensating For Weakness or Search For Meaning?
[su_dropcap style="flat"]L[/su_dropcap]et’s examine these two philosophical and psychological views to understand what and how our career and life are shaped. Let’s me start by quoting Alfred Adler’s thought provoking philosophical work in “Understanding of Human Nature” where he states: “What we think we lack determines what we will become in life”. Adler’s famous work on how every child develops in ways that allows them to compensating for weakness - “A thousand talents and capabilities arise from our feelings of inadequacies”.
“What we think we lack determines what we will become in life”.
The other equally provocative view is from Viktor Frankl’s most famous work “Man’s Search For Meaning”. He was a neurologist who had the opportunity to avoid Concentration Camp, was offered a visa to live in America but chose stay with his parents, knowing fully well the fate in store for them. Frankl wrote “Each person comes into life with a unique set of potential meaning to fulfill. It is up to us to grasp this meaning and accept it, or try to avoid it. There is no ultimate ‘meaning of life’, only individual meaning of life of the lives of individual people. It's the meaning of our own life, our own set of issues and challenges”.
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