A psychiatrist’s account of surviving the Nazi camps, and the idea that meaning — not pleasure or power — is what keeps us going.
In the first half, Frankl describes life in Auschwitz and other camps, and how prisoners who held on to a purpose were more likely to endure.
In the second, he outlines logotherapy: the view that our main drive is to find meaning, which we can discover through work, love, and the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.
Even when everything else is taken, we keep the freedom to choose our attitude.
People can endure almost any “how” if they have a “why”.
Creating a work, loving someone, and facing suffering with courage.
Pain we cannot avoid can still be given meaning by how we bear it.
Instead of asking what we expect from life, ask what life expects from us.
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