Your Highest Freedom | Robin Sharma

4 Jul 2008 · 1 min

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A short spoken piece by coach Robin Sharma reflecting on Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and the idea that humans have a highest freedom: the ability to choose one’s attitude and response to any circumstance. Sharma uses Frankl’s concentration-camp testimony to emphasize resilience, meaning-making, and choosing to find good rather than be consumed by despair.

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Hi, this is Robin Sharma, your success coach. Our session today is called your Highest Freedom. One of my favorite books is Man's Search for Meaning, written by Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychotherapist who survived Nazi confinement in a in the concentration camps. So many of those around him perished, they lost hope. They fell into despair, then death. He managed to get through the ordeal by applying what I believe truly is our highest human freedom, our ability to choose how we respond to and process any event that happens to us. We can look for some good in everything that happens to us, or we can become haunted by what's bad. Frankl writes, everything can be taken from a man, but one thing the last of the human freedoms. To choose one's attitude to a given set of circumstances, to choose one's way. Such a magnificent thought.