Modern Man's Challenges: Gossip, Fatigue, Anxiety, and the Pursuit of Happiness

1. The Allure of Gossip

Why this interest is given by snooping on what happens to the characters in the gossip magazines?

R = Because it says nothing more interesting than the lives of others.

What do professionals say the gossip magazines mean when they say a person is "hanging out"?

R = Magazines say they are "hanging out," and for them, it means they do not have significant intellectual or cultural interests, or more than the great ideals that abound in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as hedonism and materialism.

What is life for these publications?

R = A zigzagging, uncertain adventure, in which almost everything is allowed, and everything is possible. The sensational is a key ingredient that must not fail.

2. The Fatigue of Life

What is fatigue?

R = A feeling of exhaustion after an effort of a certain size.

The fatigue of life forces us to three things, mention them:

• Search
• Describe its causes and what the subject experiences
• Design a formula out of it

What is the best therapy to move beyond this tiredness?

• Rethinking life in order to manage time
• Setting preferences
• Implementing a firm plan to carry out these purposes

3. Anxiety of Modern Man

What is the "mass"?

R = All say the same; clichés and commonplaces are repeated from mouth to mouth.

How can we define the disorder?

R = As the anticipation of the worst.

What to do about the reality we live?

R = We must return to humanism consistently committed to values.

4. Psychology of Failure

What is called a failure?

R = It could be defined as the inner experience of defeat, the consciousness of not having achieved the proposed goal.

What is the consequence of failure?

R = The result of having found that something into which we put our effort and enthusiasm has not emerged as we expected.

What does maturity mean?

R = To have integrated the past and be open towards the future, which is the most important dimension of temporality.

5. Psychology of Drugs

Cite three reasons why young people begin to get high:

R =

• Curiosity to know how it feels.
• It is fashionable and looks good for the world of drugs meant for the young to satisfy their thirst for adventures.

What do drugs mean for young people?

R = A means of enhancing the experiences of freedom and independence.

What is drug addiction?

R = A permanent expression of the myth of ragweed: a substance that, when taken, made the gods immortal effortlessly.

6. Life is Not Improvised

What does it take to become an individual with a clear identity?

R = Plan for life, narrow it, set borders, draw their outlines, and then live it.

What are the two lenses of life?

R = From within and without; the first is deep and private, the second is surface and public.

What apparatus is needed to schedule your life?

R = Two components: excitement and enthusiasm, both exude joy of life and continuous self-improvement.

7. The Happiness Project

What is happiness?

R = It is the fundamental vocation of man, his first inclination, and the direction of his efforts.

What constitutes happiness?

R = In hopes that it is the best way to be happy because life is lived in advance, because it is designed and then slowly savored.

What is the goal of happiness?

R = Full personal fulfillment as embodied in two key segments:

• To have found yourself
• To have a life plan

8. Solutions for Modern Man

What would be a possible solution to man's diet (spiritual/moral deficiency)?

R = Return to solid values that do not crumble over time.

What is one of the main values?

R = Humanism, which is based on a sound, open, and pluralistic moral formation.

What are the areas of development of human life?

R = Inside and outside; the first is directed to the interior, to the affective, and so on, while the outside is manifested through behavior.