In my video, I am sharing a real motivational, inspirational story of a man who lived in the death camp of Auschwitz. Through his amazingly inspirational journey, I want to emphasis a very important point … that we human beings always have the power of choice, the power to choose our attitude and mindset even in the most inhuman conditions.
It is the story of a man whose identity was reduced to just a number.
It is the story of a man from whom even the brutal, dehumanizing Nazi regime could not take away …the last of the human freedoms—the freedom to choose one’s attitude.
Not my words but his “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. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
It is a very powerful thought on power of choice, power of mindset but it becomes extremely powerful because it was his mindset while he was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.
This man was Viktor Frankl.
He was a happy boy surrounded by loving parents, brother and a sister, looking at a life of unlimited potential, unaware of the evil which was about to destroy the lives of millions of people more specifically Jews.
He grew up to become a brilliant Neurologist and psychiatrist. Like any other young man fell in love and got married. He was living a life, a simple, peaceful happy life with its little pleasures and pain, the kind of life which is the birth right of every human being.
Life was good till one evil man decided that not every human being was created equal and unleashed unimaginable horror and degradation towards anyone who did not fit in his idea of a Super race.
To know the complete story please click on the video.
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