Viktor Frankl attributes his ability to survive to one simple thing: Hope. He believes that he was able to find hope even when things seemed insurmountable. Rather than focusing on the horrendous living conditions and atrocities being committed all around him, Frankl focuses on his wife, the work he wishes to complete when he is released, and the most subtle of kindnesses. He finds the human spirit is still alive among the prisoners who have been starved and tortured, and this is enough to keep him going. Frankl found that those prisoners who thought only of their misery and suffering lost their will to live. He focused on teaching others not to expect things from life. Rather, he taught them that life expected things of them, so they needed to focus on what they could give to others and to life itself, no matter how small the gift.
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