Man's Search For Meaning The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust (With New Material)

in Victor Frankl's a man's search for meaning he survived that nazi concentration camp because he had a purpose a higher calling

Yeah, could be for art, for intellectual history it's a classic Victor Frankel argument of man search for meaning, right?

As Victor Frankel is leaving the concentration camps what helps him survive.

And it's the debt that he owes to the future work that he wants to write to share with the world.

And it's not the fear of death.

It's the meaning of the work he could do for the world if he survives.

Viktor Frankl who's this amazing psychologist who was a holocaust survivor and he wrote Man's Search for Meaning a book after he survived the death camps and he was somebody who while he was in the death camp said I'm going to take control of my experience because mentality is everything that it's not the meaning of something is determined by my own view of it and I'm going to turn this horrible experience into a stronger better person rather than allowing this experience to make me a worse person

I told you about one of my favorite books, which keeps jumping up the rankings every time we mentioned it.

The next is... Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning. And it is sort of a depressing book about surviving the Holocaust. But for me, for the last four years, it's been kind of a load star to purpose. That if you have purpose, you can kind of get through really, really, really hard stuff.

If you haven't read it, I'd suggest you do. It will make you think as it made Tom Garfinkel think.

The lesson one could learn in Auschwitz and in other concentration camps, in the final analysis was those who were oriented toward a meaning to be fulfilled by them in the future were most likely to survive.

And this has been confirmed afterwards by American Navy and Army psychiatrists in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

The orientation toward a future, toward a task, a personal task waiting for them to be fulfilled in their future or another person whom they were loving to be met again.

This was what was decisively upholding these people.

So, the orientation beyond oneself, you see, the question was not just survival, but there had to be a why of survival.

The book is about the experience that Viktor Frankl had in a concentration camp during the Second World War.

And specifically it was about his experience, how he was able to maintain a sense of control over his life despite the complete lack of control he had from an objective standpoint.

And one of the core lessons of that book is even when you have no control over your environment, you can still exert some degree of control over your reaction to the environment.

Especially in contexts where you feel like there's nothing you can do to make the situation better. Believing that well at least I can control my own reaction to the situation, I think gives you some degree of agency, right?

That allows you to both maintain an adequate level of well-being in the moment and also maintain some degree of hope to think that well, things are terrible now but at least there's a possibility for things to be better in the future.

The lesson one could learn in Auschwitz and in other concentration camps in the final analysis was those who were oriented toward a meaning to be fulfilled by them in the future were most likely to survive.

And this has been confirmed afterwards by American Navy and Army psychiatrists in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

The orientation toward a future, toward a task, a personal task waiting for them to be fulfilled in their future or another person whom they were loving to be met again.

This was what was decisively upholding these people.

So this, the orientation beyond oneself, the, you see, the question was not just survival, but there had to be a why of survival.

And when I looked at I think the work of Edith Eger in her book The Gift or Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning and you know two people who lived through incredible atrocities like they turned towards finding meaning and and finding purpose and so I loved what you said at the beginning

Victor Frankl who wrote Man's Search for Meaning these two phenomenal books if anyone hasn't read them like they had that in that scenario.

Recently I was reading from, I was reading from Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning Again.

Author Viktor Frankl who wrote about his experience in the holocaust in his book Man's Search for Meaning once said, what is to give light must endure burning.

My favorite book, or at least it's in the top five is Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Franklin.

I don't know. I read a lot of really hard books when I was in my 20s because I skipped college.

And that was just one of the books. I mean, that's a book that so many people have read and people quote from all the time.

stop asking what you expect out of life and start asking what life expects out of you.

My favorite book, or at least it's in the top five is Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Franklin.

And you talk about this book, Man's Search for Meaning, which I had on my bookshelf.

And it was stop asking what life expects out of you and start asking, or no, stop asking what you expect out of life and start asking what life expects out of you.

Something along those lines. Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's it.

And I was like, wait, what? I was like, wait, what's life expecting from me?

And then there's a, I read about this later from the classic book which I hope everybody's read called Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel.

It's also uh analogous to man's search for meaning right victor frankle but ultimately your ability to respond in any situation is the thing that can never be taken away from you

And honestly, if you look at all of the mindfulness stuff, if you look at the work of Viktor Frankl and Man's Search for Meaning, so much of it is this idea of creating more space between an action and a reaction.

And if you can extend that space and choose a different reaction, that's where the growth comes from.

And that's how we can overcome these negative behavioral trends.

I would name one of the books, or I'd just name one of my perennial favorites. Like, oh, Man's Search for Meaning, you know?

One of the books that I read as a youngster was Victor Frankl's famous book from death camp to oxy existentialism now I didn't know too much still don't know too much about the existentialism but I do know that he survived that by virtue of focusing on the lovey had for his wife the lovey had for his family because if you have a why as he kept saying you can bear any how the tragedy is that the modern world while having less and less in the way of objective difficulties has less and less of the why that will enable us to endure the how

I'm gonna say that everyone should read man's search for meaning by Victor Frankl.

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I'm gonna say that everyone should read man's search for meaning by Victor Frankl

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Man's Search for Meaning, Victor's book.

Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most popular books. Heralded books. Always on everyone's top five recommendation. I was positive I read it. Uh-huh. And I'm like, I've forgotten most of it. I'm going to reread it. I don't think I've read it.

I believe as Victor Frankel broke in broke down in his famous book man's search for meaning that you could divide people into two different categories the decent and the indecent.

and finally I also love man's search for meaning by Victor Frankl it is powerful it's amazing I know name a lot and the age of entitlement by Christopher Caldwell which is the most powerful critique of the Civil Rights Act of anyone has written it's just excellent so hope that helps Joshua excellent thank you so much Charlie and keep up the good work God bless thank you let's get to another question here as someone just emailed us freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com they said Charlie and their their their member they said Charlie I have a question for Blake Blake says that he can name all the Roman emperors but can you name all the provinces of Germany why Germany okay rather random right yeah that's a little straight okay let me think.

Victor Frankl who wrote Man's Search for Meaning says we must pursue deep fulfillment. Happiness is a byproduct of living a meaningful life.

He brings stuff back with him and inside the bag there was a book and through this book I use it to learn English to be honest.

This book was called Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.

So like reading this book it became actually my guiding light that helped me actually navigate through my life and it did influence my life and shape my whole outlook of everything around me.

So you know the main idea about this book that everything can be taken away from you except your attitude and reaction to any given situation whether it's good or bad and this is what kind of pushed me to study more, to excel at study or graduate with a very good degrees and get a scholarship to go abroad.

It kind of was my guiding light throughout my life until now.

I love A Man's Search for Meaning. That's an amazing book.

Somebody told me, he said, if you want to stay out of the depression of that, he told me this book and I actually ordered it.

it was something along the lines of the purpose of a man or the purpose of living your life or whatever.

And it's written by a Holocaust survivor, which is basically, you know, he said like essentially the worst level of human behavior and survived it and then came out of it.

Victor Frankel wrote in *Man's Search for Meaning* that when we are no longer able to change a situation We are challenged to change ourselves.

How or when what circumstance would we change ourselves to overcome an incredible adversity?

the idea of space comes from Viktor Frankl, who is the famous Holocaust survivor, the author of Man's Search for Meaning.

He has a quote where he says that our power exists in the space that we can create between stimulus and response. That insight comes from Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning.