Viktor Frankl on Success

In 1945, shortly after his release from the concentration camps where his mother and brother had been murdered in the gas chambers, not yet knowing the love of his life was ailing with the typhus that would soon kill her, Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) sat down at his desk to compose what would become the epochal classic Man’s Search for Meaning. As it poured out of him over the course of just nine consecutive days, he wrote with “the firm determination” to publish it anonymously. It was only on his friends’ ardent insistence that he conceded at… read article