Man's Search for Meaning
1946 • 165 pages
Ratings213
Average rating4.2
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Ratings213
Average rating4.2
This author's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, he argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. This book has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.
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The last book I read during this year (2015) and the one with the most impact on me. A long time since a book made me think, feel and reflect so deeply on life. Truly a a masterpiece and a gem of a book!
Vicktor does the impossible: he walks us through what kept him going at a place where everything was taken away, all purpose stripped, all previous achievements gone. It didn't matter if you were a doctor, everyone was worth nothing. He saw people give up hope, die before their actual death. However; because of his own experience, he studies what made him survive and others like him. Ultimately, for him, it was the thought of seeing his wife again, of completing a scientific paper... things he could live for, beyond his immediate suffering.
If a man can crawl out from such a pit, and push through his challenges, it makes you put in perspective our own challenges and our own limits of what we think is possible and what we are actually capable of doing.
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