Victor Frankl; The Man Who Survived Holocaust

Man’s Search for Meaning is a book written by Victor Frankl on psychology of survival.

Victor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who survived the holocaust and death camps of the Nazis. He survived the death camps of the Nazis for 3 years where he discovered the importance of finding meaning in all conditions of life and how finding meaning out of life will potentially help us achieve what is considered to be next to impossible.

After surviving the holocaust and death camps Victor Frankl mastered the science of psychology and founded logotherapy which was a new analysis to psychotherapy. Victor Frankl discovered how human brain worked and how to condition it and get things work; in form of contribution, he wrote Man’s Search for Meaning in order to help human beings condition their mind according to their will.

Man’s Search for Meaning is a book written on personal experiences in worst and cruel situations that human beings faced in the 1940s with elaboration of human reactions.

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about meaning of life, and instead think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life daily and hourly. Our question must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems. “Quoted from Man’s Search for Meaning”

It is all about finding Meaning in sufferings and taking pride in every challenge that life gives us.