Yousuf Raza – Is meaning important for subjective wellbeing

			A person's subjective well-being is massively influenced
		

			by what they find as meaning in life.
		

			If they can find some meaning, despite being
		

			in the most poverty-stricken or war-struck
		

			environments, yet if they find some meaning, it
		

			can change the overall well-being.
		

			Is that what you're kind of building on
		

			over there in neurotherapy?
		

			Yes, this is something that Frankl introduced.
		

			See, when Frankl is working in the middle
		

			of the 20th century, the environment and the
		

			university and psychiatry as a field is a
		

			product of the European enlightenment and disenchantment.
		

			What that practically means is prior to this
		

			enlightenment, what was associated with meaningfulness was primarily
		

			originated in religion.
		

			With the scientific enlightenment, with the disenchantment that
		

			happened in Europe along that time, not only
		

			did that do away with any role that
		

			religion had to play in the academia, in
		

			the university, the baby was also thrown out
		

			with the bathwater, so to speak, in a
		

			lot of ways.
		

			One of those was meaningfulness.
		

			So for Frankl to talk about meaning at
		

			that time was very revolutionary.
		

			Even still, we have the research that you're
		

			mentioning.
		

			It is not even a question anymore that
		

			is meaning important for subjective well-being and
		

			happiness.
		

			It is integral.
		

			Those who are researching are saying a more
		

			intelligent question is going to be, is it
		

			possible without meaning?
		

			So that's how much it has been established,
		

			and that has a lot to do with
		

			what Frankl sowed the seeds for and is
		

			usually not given enough.