Chad Silverstein describes first reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning in 2010 after meeting someone named Chet. The book provoked a strong emotional reaction, opened his awareness of the Holocaust, and catalyzed deeper questioning about purpose and curiosity. He links this experience to a broader practice of asking discovery questions and encouraging others to find or act on purpose.
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I first read Man's Search for meaning in 2010 after I met Chet. He asked me if I had ever read the book, and I had not. And I remember picking it up. And I remember it didn't take long for me to get very choked up and emotional. I didn't know much about the Holocaust, and it's very shocking for me for who I am and for how old I was, but I just never read about it. I never really heard anyone's account of it. And that was the first time I really. I really did. And I remember it was hard. Did something to me as I was on my journey. Helped me connect, helped me go ask questions to be more curious. You never know when there's something that happens in your life or shows up. And I believe at least that there's no coincidences and that things happen for a reason. Sometimes you just have to keep your eyes open, have some awareness that it's happening, that you have something presented in front of you and you have to take and run. So that's what I did. And I remember that was right around the time where I really started to. To really start thinking a little bit deeper about life. Especially like when you look at all the discovery questions that we have in the playbook, and yeah, you got to have purpose. Got to have purpose. You know, you hear about it, everyone says it, you believe it, but do you have it? And if not, do something about it?