21/09/2023
/ Viktor Frankl / concentration camp survivor
"Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it."
"Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories. Logotherapy was recognized as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy; the first school was created by Sigmund Freud, and the second by Alfred Adler. Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man's Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various N**i concentration camps."
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Born: Viktor Emil Frankl, March 26, 1905, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died: September 02, 1997, Vienna, Austria
Resting place: Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria, Old Jewish Section
Nationality: Austrian
Education: Doctorate in Medicine, 1931, Doctorate in Philosophy, 1948
Alma mater: University of Vienna
Occupation: Neurologist, psychiatrist
Known for: Logotherapy, Existential analysis
Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House