Man's Search for Meaning by psychiatrist @Viktor E. Frankl depicts life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. The book chronicles his experiences in four different labor camps, including Auschwitz, between 1942 and 1945; during which his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. A 1991 Library of Congress survey identified Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books that "book that made a difference in [a reader's] life." Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, *Man's Search for Meaning *had sold more than ten million copies in 24 languages. My experience reading Frankl's book was the result of @Tim Ferriss who—from interviewing the world's top performers in @Tribe of Mentors—identifies Man's Search for Meaning as the most gifted. If you're searching for meaning or purpose, read this.

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