The Good Scribbler

Ren: Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl! Granny Ume: I know it; a bookkeeper's cure, in Part Two. Now I will show people what a good scribbler I am! Mio: what does it mean? Granny Ume: his writer's cramp risked his job; told to scrawl, he couldn't. Free in forty-eight hours; fear feeds on fighting it. Poko: scribble bravely.

The clearest case in Man's Search for Meaning is a bookkeeper in Part Two whose writer's cramp had grown so bad he was about to lose his job: told to do the opposite of what he had been trying, to write the worst scrawl he could and say 'Now I will show people what a good scribbler I am', he found he could not scribble at all, and within forty-eight hours the cramp was gone; Frankl calls the method paradoxical intention, built on the fact that fear brings about the very thing one fears.

On the book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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RenGranny UmeMioPoko