Usiwe na Lengo la Mafanikio
Viktor Frankl: DON'T aim at success (Thanks for quote idea @BobMerberg!)
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KISWAHILI
“Usiwe na lengo la mafanikio.
"Kadiri unavyolenga zaidi na kuifanya kuwa shabaha, ndivyo unavyozidi kuikosa.
“Kwa maana mafanikio, kama furaha, hayawezi kufuatiwa; lazima itokee, na inafanya hivyo tu kama athari isiyotarajiwa ya kujitolea kwa mtu binafsi kwa jambo kubwa kuliko nafsi yake au kama matokeo ya kujisalimisha kwa mtu asiyekuwa yeye mwenyewe.
"Furaha lazima itokee, na vivyo hivyo kwa mafanikio: lazima uiruhusu itokee kwa kutokujali juu yake.
“...Nataka usikilize kile ambacho dhamiri yako inakuamuru kufanya na endeleeni kuitekeleza kwa kadri ya ujuzi wenu. Kisha utaishi kuona hilo baada ya muda mrefu—kwa muda mrefu, nasema!—mafanikio yatakufuata haswa kwa sababu ulikuwa umesahau kufikiria juu yake.”
- Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) alikuwa daktari wa magonjwa ya akili wa Austria, mnusurika wa Holokosti, mwandishi, na profesa.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
“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.”
- Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997), was an Austrian psychologist, Holocaust survivor, author, and professor
Kuhusu (About):
KISWAHILI
Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) alikuwa daktari wa magonjwa ya akili wa Austria, mnusurika wa mauaji ya kimbari yaliyoitwa Holokosti, mwandishi, na profesa. Kutokana na ukatili aliona na alionea katika kambi za mateso, aliendelea kutengeneza mbinu ya kisaikolojia inayojulikana kama tiba ya kisaikolojialogo inaitwa logotherapy ambayo inasema nguvu kuu ya motisha ya mtu binafsi ni kutafuta maana katika maisha.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian psychologist, Holocaust survivor, author, and professor. Drawing upon the brutality he saw and experienced in the concentration camps, he went on to develop a psychological method known as logotherapy, which says the primary motivation of an individual is to find meaning in life.
KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,
Mmerikani
ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,
Mmerikani
Chanzo (source): Frankl, Viktor E. Preface to the 1992 Edition in Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 1949, location 81. Kindle Edition.