Any prominent person, whom I have had the privilege of listening to or whose book I have throughly enjoyed reading, has also read Victor Frankl’s book, Man’s search for meaning, at least once. Mr. Frankl dedicates the first part of his book to give a generous account of his horrific experience in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII.
A neurologist by profession, he dedicates the second part of the book to a theory he developed and called logotherapy. According to this theory, our primary motivational factor in life is to find meaning. And one of the three areas where we find meaning in life is through unavoidable suffering. Love and our vocation are the other two. In his book, man’s search for meaning, he advocated that instead of feeling shame in our sufferings or shaming others in theirs, we ought to stand in our sufferings with dignity because it opens up a path to finding meaning in life.