While surfing the internet this evening I came across a video from 1972 of Viktor Frankl. I have included a link to the video (it is a TED video) and am reproducing it here, as well. Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. As many reading this blog know, Frankl spent three years in four different Nazi concentration camps during World War II, where he learned that even under the most deplorable and dehumanizing conditions, there is meaning in man's suffering and that man has the power to choose how he responds to such. It was in the concentration camps where Frankl's "logotherapy" was put to the test. Frankl wrote several books, with perhaps his most famous book being Man's Search for Meaning, wherein he describes his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. I love this quote from the book: Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus,everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
