What retains a human being going? The purest reply to this query is maybe to be discovered within the worst of locations. Austrian psychiatrist, thinker, and creator Viktor Frankl spent three years in 4 completely different focus camps. He was on the mercy of sadistic SS guards and the so-called “Capos:” prisoners with particular privileges who willingly collaborated with the Nazis and had been much more ruthless than their masters.
The camp inmates had been continually uncovered to famine, illness, slave labor, and the potential for punishment or execution. There was no freedom. The prisoners moved round like a defenseless flock of sheep, kicked and crushed by their shepherds, stripped of all human dignity.
What’s left to stay for in such a horrible place like a focus camp? Once they’ve taken all of your liberties and possessions, and when dying at quick discover is sort of inevitable, is there any motive not to surrender on life? Viktor Frankl concluded that there’s all the time a motive to stay even within the worst circumstances: there’s all the time which means in struggling. And if we will grasp this which means – this star within the sky – we will overcome even probably the most painful circumstances.
Based on Viktor Frankl, it’s not pleasure nor success and energy that primarily drives folks; it’s discovering one thing – a goal, a which means – to stay and even die for (Discovering One thing to Stay and Die For | The Philosophy of Viktor Frankl).
The quotes on this video are from Viktor Frankl’s guide ‘Man’s Seek for That means’.
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00:00 – Intro
01:46 – The good divide
07:29 – Why which means
10:38 – Discovering which means