10x Short lessons learnt from this book are:-

1.      Suffering Gives Life Meaning: Frankl argues that even in the worst circumstances, life can have meaning and that suffering can, in fact, add to that meaning. Our goal in life should not be to avoid suffering but to find meaning in it.

2.      Freedom of Choice: No circumstances, however grim, can take away a person’s freedom to choose their attitude. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can always control how you to it.

3.      The Importance of Purpose:l emphasizes the need to have a purpose in life. Having a sense of purpose is what gives a person the strength to endure hardship and survive.

4.      Subjective Truths: Every individual’s quest for meaning is personal and unique. It’s important to respect and acknowledge one’s own unique path.

5.      Man’s Main Concern Is Not to Gain Pleasure or to Avoid Pain but Rather to See a Meaning in His Life: Joy and happiness can not be pursued they must ensue from meaningful living.

6.      Value in Accepting Life’s Unavoidable Suffering: There is value in accepting unavoidable suffering and dealing with it by finding meaning in it.

7.      The Existential Vacuum Phenomenon: A common symptom of modern society is the “existential vacuum”—a feeling of emptiness and aimlessness, which people often try to fill with things that are ultimately unfulfilling.

8.      Concept of Logotherapy: Logotherapy is a form of existential analysis that focuses on a will to meaning as opposed to Adler’s Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud’s will to pleasure.

9.      The Theory of Tragic Optimism: Embracing the potentials and possibilities of human life while acknowledging its limits and its tragic aspects of pain, guilt, and death.

10.  Principle Transitoriness: Frankl observed that people value things more when they are aware of their limited lifespan. It is the transitoriness of life, the awareness of an ending, that gives value to real-life situations and relationships.