Man's Search for meaning book summary.

                            Man's Search For Meaning



Author: Viktor Frankl


All the key ideas of this great book Man's Search For Meaning in this short Book Summary.

Man's search for meaning deals with the experiences for Viktor Frankl in Nazi Germany's Concentration camps and his psychotherapeutic technique called logotherapy.

man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl book summary




Frankl was one of the prisoners in the Concentration camp and he had spent three years in various concentration camps when he finally had released from the camp after the war.


The life described by Viktor is like every day the chances of their death were more than the chances of their survival.

Frankl was one of the survivors of those concentration camps. After coming out he started teaching others to find the meaning of their lives.


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The core idea of this book consistent with Frankl is that man's biggest desire is to seek out the meaning of his life and if an individual can find the meaning he can survive in any of the circumstances. 

Frankl had decided that he would use the sufferings because of the opportunities and become a far better person. He decided to embrace all the sufferings rather brooding about the chances and therefore the bad situations.
According to Frankl, even a man's destiny depends upon the circumstances he face but one thing always presents in his hand, that's the selection. In every situation we've can freely choose our attitude and that we can define our lives.
In this way, by finding the right meaning Frankl could survive three years within the camps. additionally to the present Frankl always motivated himself by brooding about the works he wanted to try to after getting released from the camp.


He wanted to rewrite his manuscript about logotherapy that Nazis took from him when he received Auschwitz. He wanted to satisfy his wife, albeit we didn't know that if she was alive.

if an individual can find the meaning of his/her life he/she can survive in any circumstances-man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl quotes

The second lesson is BEING INDIFFERENT TO DEATH ALLOWED PEOPLE TO SURVIVE.

By surrendering to this and not brooding about the longer-term makes an excellent difference. In those days of Frankl, they didn't realize what could happen next. So it had been better for them to measure is present.

According to Frankl, in the prison at some point he met a person in the camp, the person told him that he had a dream in the dark an individual told him that they might be released from the camp on 30th March. it had been Last days of February, therefore, the man was considerably happy, but when the times were getting nearer the war was getting more and more intensified and with the times the happiness of that person was also becoming low. On 29th March the person becomes very sick and on 31 March he died. 


That was happened because he was thinking of the longer term. He had attached his happiness to the longer-term only.


In order to survive, you've got to be okay with dying any moment.




The third lesson is, Paradoxical intention

Try to force your fear to return faithful make them away. once we have fear of doing a thing actually it is time we do those things.


Say if you would like to talk ahead of public but if you retain in your mind that if you'll not be ready to speak properly your friends will tease you then by keeping this in your mind you'll not be ready to speak good ahead of them. Now reverse the paradox and believe they're going to appreciate your work, you'll learn new things, or say any good outcome then you'll see better results.


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What lessons we learn from here: 

We face many situations in our life, many of them we can't change. Now, what to do? here author suggest when we can't change situations then we should focus on changing ourselves. We should adapt ourself with the situation. And this is the rule of life. 

The second one is If a person is being separated from everything he/she has, but still we cannot take the freedom to choose his/her attitude in the circumstances. It is on us how we look at different situations in our life. How to decide to react to the different situation it all depends upon us. A setback can be considered as both a cause of pain or an opportunity to grow. So, the author suggests us to choose wisely. 

If we have a meaning of our life, then whatever suffering we may face in the journey they won't affect us because we have a goal and in the lust of achieving it we can neglect those sufferings. But if we are not clear at our goal then we will suffer a lot in this journey and it might we can drop our goal. So the author suggests keeping a clear goal, clear meaning of your life. You won't fall down.

This was the whole Man's search for meaning summary and the key ideas written in the book  Man's search for meaning BY Viktor Frankl. What do you feel after reading this book tell me, the comments section is all yours... 

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