Viktor Frankl : The Power of Choice

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”   

- Dr.Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who survived the Nazi death camps observed the meaningfulness that could be found in the suffering itself:

(T)here is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior:  namely, in man's attitude to his existence, and existence restricted by external forces....  Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.  (1963, p. 106) 

 Building on his experience in the Death camps, Frankl pioneered an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on the human search for meaning. His approach called  Logotherapy postulates a will to meaning.

In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.