Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor.E.Frankl

 

Man's Search For meaning - Viktor.E.Frankl

The classic tribute to hope from the holocaust.

One of the finest way of conducting life and telling one's story. An amazing package for life in a book.

First part of the book is about the author's experience in the concentration camps during the World War II and how he was fortunate to survive Auschwitz. And how the manuscript of this book, which was taken away from him, was his motivation to look forward to something in the outside world after losing his family in the same hell.

Second part of the book is about Logotherapy which was developed by the author from his years of study and experience of psychoanalysis. To put it roughly here, every human looks for "a meaning" in everything, especially the desire to find meaning of life itself, which explains the title. To quote: 

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way".

I'm greatly motivated and transformed after reading the book. It talks to you on a deeper level. It teaches you, anything that happens in life is not under our control but how we look at it is completely relative and depends on your perspective. It is up to you to extract what meaning you want from life and the moment you hold that control with yourself, nothing that comes your way can have power over you. 

And I think it is wise to have the power of perception in our control rather than to give it to the situations and external factors. The book gets 5/5.