Subhajit Chakraboarty

If you read but one book this year, "Man's search for meaning" should be the one . Frankl question the existence of human beings .First he let us go in dispear then give his hands to see the brighter picture (perspective should be the word) of the world. He emphasized the philosophy of Nietzsche by quoting "he who has a why to live for can be almost any more".He stated if suffering is inevitable then you must bear with it,but if you can avoid it , avoid it at any cost. This book helped me a lot during this lockdown.Hope it'll not disappoint you as well.

Before reading the book,I have gone through many articles and interviews related to Jack,so I thought I knew much .After reading the book I came to realise that was just the tip of the iceberg . Duncan Clark beautifully demonstrated jack's journey from being a regular boy of China to Asia's richest man and to me Jack is neither Jeff Bezos nor Elon mask ,he is one and only Jack Ma .One can feel the spirit of Alibaba by Jack's quote "Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal,but the day after tomorrow is beautiful.However the majority of people wil die Tomorrow night".

I bought the book in 2017 ,and started reading in March,2020. I tried reading this before but I couldn't complete more than 2 pages .Now when I look back I think I wasn't ready. Some books are only relevant when you face a crisis and this is one of those books. This fable is about a man who spent his life on chasing money and fame ,only to realise how stupid he was. If I put it simply this is the story of us chasing things we don't need, fighting over things that hardly matter ,and ,how one should realise his inner potential to overcome this meaninglessness to become a true version of himself. "The reason why we are fighting so hard, is not to change the world but instead not to let the world change us."