Lessons from 1972
I stumbled across lecture given in 1972 by Viktor Frankl which struck a cord. I hadn’t even heard of Frankl until needing to do some work on foundations of behavioural change for a project.
Goethe’s “If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take him as he should be, then we make him capable of becoming what he can be.” Beautiful given our world and the current sociopolitical mess we have landed ourselves in. To be saying having faith, trust more, expect the best, struck me as an impressive leap of faith in anyone, especially given Frankl’s experiences at Theresienstadt.
Hi There
Viktor Frankl is an awesome thinker. ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ came out number one in a recent poll I conducted with my LinkedIn groups on their top ten leadership books.
His book is about survival, self-leadership and the power of positive thinking. It is the story of one man’s fight for survival in Auschwitz. My favourite quote is:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way”.
If you can think that way through the Holocaust, you can think your way through anything.
Check out which other books were recommended here:
http://zomicommunicationsantoinette.blogspot.com/2011/01/seeking-inspiration-leadership-and.html
Antoinette
November 4th, 2011 | 10:55pm
by Antoinette Dale Henderson