Why people recommend it
Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is a profound psychological memoir and exploration of human resilience rooted in the author's experiences inside Nazi concentration camps. Tony Robbins recommended the book on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, describing it as one of the most influential reads of his life and praising Frankl's insight into finding meaning during extreme hardship. Similarly, Stephen Dubner suggested the book on Freakonomics Radio, and David Brooks recommended the classic text on Modern Wisdom while discussing suffering and difficult life periods. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Michael Shellenberger highlighted Frankl as a favorite thinker on mental attitude, while Yannis Pappas also brought up the work with Joe Rogan. Chip Conley recommended the book on The Daily Stoic as a personal favorite that illuminates the crucial space between stimulus and response. Finally, Dominick Quartuccio advised listeners on ChooseFI to read it for discovering life purpose and understanding human reactivity.
Who recommended it
- Chris Williamson Recommended
- Lex Fridman Recommended
- Angela Duckworth Discussed
- Ryan Holiday Discussed
- Dominick Quartuccio Recommended
- Stephen Dubner Recommended
- Joe Rogan Discussed
- Yannis Pappas Recommended
- Chris Bumstead Discussed
- Arthur Brooks Discussed
- Chip Conley Recommended
- David Carey Discussed
- David Wolpe Recommended
- Neal Stephenson Discussed
- Pierre Poilievre Discussed
- Mel Robbins Discussed
- Lukas Nelson Discussed
- Sharon McMahon Discussed
- Ky Dickens Discussed
- Tony Robbins Recommended
- Brigham Buhler Discussed
- Josh Dubin Discussed
- Sheldon Johnson Discussed
- Michael Shellenberger Recommended
- David Brooks Recommended
- Tony Abbott Discussed
- Logan Ury Discussed
- Brad Stulberg Discussed
- Neri Oxman Discussed
- Charlie Kirk Discussed
- Bill Burr Discussed
- Gretchen Rubin Recommended
- Ava Wetrick Recommended
- Lewis Howes Discussed
- Brad Barrett Discussed
- Bo Loy Recommended
- Mohammad Hijab Discussed
- Duncan Trussell Discussed
- Simon Sinek Discussed
- Dr. Christian Busch Recommended
- Elon Musk Recommended
- Michael Gervais Recommended
- Paul Bloom Discussed
- Barry Barish Discussed
- Tim Pool Recommended
- Robert Breedlove Recommended
- Josh Barnett Discussed
- Daniel Amen Recommended
- Jay Shetty Discussed
- Heather Morris Recommended
- Manolis Kellis Discussed
- Kyle Eschenroeder Discussed
- Benjamin Hardy Discussed
- George MacGill Discussed
- Nicholas Christakis Discussed
- Dave Rubin Discussed
- Jim Kwik Recommended
- Jordan Peterson Discussed
- Christine Hassler Recommended
Chris Williamson — 13 mentions
“it's also uh analogous to Man's Search for meaning right Viktor Frankl”
“it's Man's Search for meaning it's Victor Frankl or which is probably the best example of this the if you haven't read the book yet I recommend everyone checking it out”
“this was the man search for meaning this was Victor Frankel's like major Insight from that as well”
“man's search for meaning by viktor frankl or um the forgotten highlander by aleister rouerkart”
“then you look at um who wrote man's search for meaning viktor frankl you talk about victor frankel”
“think of man's search for meaning subtract all of the psychological insights add in about 10x the amount of extremeness”
“actually i promise we're going to get into stories i hope which is a new book in a second i'm going to guess you'll have read man's search for meaning by viktor frankl yes yeah”
“because the lessons that you can learn from that books like the tattooist man's search for meaning … the forgotten highlander by alistair ercart have you read that”
“so i'm guessing you've heard of read victor frankel man's search for meaning multiple times so if you yeah so i mean i think everyone quotes if if you look at victor frankl when he looked at the the um when he was in out switch was he announced which he was in one of the concentration camps no thank”
“and that's I'm reading month search for meaning again for at the third time at the moment Victor Frankel's book this guy Holocaust survivor who also created school of psychology called logotherapy”
“there's a man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl anyone who's listening and needs an easy read what easy read it's about the concentration camps in Nazi Germany but it is an interesting read”
“so man's search for meaning is one book I guess that kind of comes to mind with regards to that like turmoil and people going through things”
“have you read the month search for meaning by Viktor Frankl”
Lex Fridman — 10 mentions
“- And also, I mean, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. - Yeah. Oh, yeah.”
“I mean, one of the things you get from books like Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl”
“You and I have talked about "Man's Search For Meaning," that book, having kind of an ultimate hardship clarifies that finding joy in life is not about the environment, it's about your outlook on that environment, and there's beauty to be found in any situation.”
“So what I, so the second time I listened to the audiobook as I ran. I get the same thing from it, as I get maybe reading Man's Search for Meaning, which is all the troubles of day-to-day in the modern world...”
“you getting a victor franco much yeah of course man search for meaning”
“well there's also the and uh there's a guy named victor franco who wrote the book masters for meaning”
“so again ernest becker but also victor franklin recommended highly man search for meeting uh bernard williams”
“and uh Victor Franco man search for meaning I read that I reread that book uh quite often”
“i'm not sure if you're familiar with this man's search for meaning by viktor frankl”
“Viktor Frankl in his book man's search for meaning I'm not sure if you've read describes his experience at the consecration a concentration camps during World War two as a way to describe that finding identifying a purpose in life”
Angela Duckworth — 8 mentions
“one of these books is Man's Search for meaning now Mike there's no way that you have not read Victor frankl's Man's Search for meaning”
“But one of these books is Man’s Search for Meaning. Now, Mike, there’s no way that you have not read Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, correct? I’ve read it several times!”
“Now, Mike, there’s no way that you have not read Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, correct? I’ve read it several times! This goes back to it: it’s short and full of great punch.”
“What Frankl said—and he said this before he became a captive of the concentration camps—and that is actually what the narrative of Man’s Search for Meaning is; it’s a story of when he was in the concentration camps and how he survived. And what he observed, like seeing all this through the lens of somebody who is really a therapist”
“So anyway, there’s so much nuance here, but I think to me when I read Hina’s new book, when I read Frankl’s iconic Man’s Search for Meaning, it is all about questions that you keep trying to answer. It is about goals, but not that all goals are created equal. So I read these two books wondering whether I’d have”
“and I hesitate to paraphrase Victor Frankel the psychiatrist who was in concentration camps and out of that experience wrote man search for meaning and developed a whole therapy based on his experience”
“it's actually the great existential psychotherapist Victor Frankel who wrote Man's Search for meaning which was a holocaust Memoir it's a memoir and it's like a philosophical treat this in one what I've come to realize after reading Man's Search for meaning”
“and I was thinking about Viktor Frankel as well the great existential psychotherapist who wrote Man's Search for meaning”
Ryan Holiday — 4 mentions
“Every time you look at someone's story, I think of Victor Frankle. Yeah. You look at all these stories and you go, it's the same.”
“I mean this—man, Man's Search for Meaning. Yeah, it's the ultimate book of psychology because it's a psychologist where the case study is himself.”
“my grandmother gave me a copy of viktor frankl's a man search for meaning as a young man and that book opened my eyes as it did for you um and i was just curious about what your experiences with him were”
“many times i think that the thing that struck me most about um man's search for meaning was he has this uh paragraph in the book where he says you know we ask what is the meaning of life and he says that's wrong life is asking us what meaning we are going to create with our actions”
Dominick Quartuccio — 3 mentions
“one of the greatest insights that I've ever come across was by a man named Victor Frankel and Victor Frankel is the author of man search for meaning one of the best best books you could ever read about finding your purpose and meaning in life”
“and one book I love to pop off my shelf during Times Like These is Victor Frankel's Man's Search for meaning Victor Frankl was a holocaust Survivor”
“and this is where you know I'm rereading Victor Frankel's Man's Search for meaning you know for like the 12th time or something silly like that”
Stephen Dubner — 2 mentions
“Frankle was an Austrian psychologist a holocaust Survivor best known for writing Man's Search for meaning if you haven't read it I'd suggest you do”
“yeah Victor Frankel wrote this Memoir man search for me because he had been in Nazi concentration camps not because he'd had a lovely Vienna childhood”
Joe Rogan — 2 mentions
“well like Man's Search for Meaning with Viktor Frankl, ever read that?”
“you ever read the book uh what's his name the guy that wrote uh man search for meeting no um it's the guy he he Victor Victor is it Victor Hugo I think he uh he was in a concentration camp and he made it all the way through and he wrote this book on loog Logo theapy I think”
Yannis Pappas — 2 mentions
“well like ‘Man's Search for Meaning’ with Victor Frankl. You ever read that? No. Victor Frankl, he survived the Holocaust...”
“Well, like Man's Search for Meaning with Victor Frankl! You ever read that?”
Chris Bumstead — 2 mentions
“man search for meaning Victor Frankle kind of talked about this and I read that book last year probably when I said this and I reflected a lot about this”
“You know, and this isn't really my line of thinking, this is like Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl kind of talked about this, and I read that book last year, probably when I said this, and I reflected a lot about this.”
Arthur Brooks — 2 mentions
“and a student really astutely says well so the modern a modern thinker on this of course is Victor Frankle yes who's all about finding meaning and purpose and and he quotes in his most famous book Man's Search for meaning which everybody who listens to this podcast has read man search for meaning Incredible Book gave me that book”
“and he quotes in his most famous book Man's Search for meaning which everybody who listens to this podcast has read man search for meaning Incredible Book”
Chip Conley — 2 mentions
“you know Victor Frankle who um man search is one of my favorite books um he wrote between stimulus and of course in a concentration cab it's easy to be reactive”
“you know Victor Frankle who um man search is one of my favorite books um he wrote between stimulus”
David Carey — 2 mentions
“um when when he talks I read I've read man search for meaning yeah um which I completely agree with you know it is a meaning in our life”
“When he talks, I read 'Man's Search for Meaning.'”
David Wolpe — 2 mentions
“you mentioned one of them which is Victor Frankle's man's search for meaning and I also really really love Hesshel's the Sabbath”
“In terms of the books that most influenced me, one of them is Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning." I also really love Heschel's "The Sabbath." I think it's a beautiful book.”
Neal Stephenson — 2 mentions
“but it's also a story of of bravery of of love of brother brotherhood and sisterhood and basically survival you have like a man search for meaning which is the stories of uh the story of a man in a concentration camp basically finding beauty in life even under uh most extreme conditions”
“you have like a man search for meaning which is the stories of uh the story of a man in a concentration camp basically finding beauty in life even under uh most extreme conditions”
Pierre Poilievre — 1 mention
“He survived the Holocaust in the concentration camp because he had a sense of meaning that he wanted to his book was stolen from him in the concentration camp about this this theory and he wanted to live on so he could survive and write that book.”
Mel Robbins — 1 mention
“I've I I have read Victor Frankle's Man Search for Meaning probably a dozen times. I could not apply any of it in a moment where I was stressed or frustrated or hurt. I could not”
Lukas Nelson — 1 mention
“I think the, you know, Victor Frankle has a um a book, a very famous book called Man's Search for Meaning.”
Sharon McMahon — 1 mention
“I wrote a piece for The Economist about this because there was a a throwaway line I read as a kid in Victor Frankle's Man Search for Meaning where he talks about how he loves the Statue of Liberty”
Ky Dickens — 1 mention
“my favorite book is Victor Frank's man search for meaning I love that book one of The Beautiful takeaways in that book right is like the meaning of life is whatever gives your life meaning”
Tony Robbins — 1 mention
“I'm actually making the film and it was one of the books that influenced me the most because the ability to find meaning even in the most difficult time and Victor Frankle to me is just a God sent to this planet most people read this book it's crazy you haven't read it ”
Brigham Buhler — 1 mention
“like in Victor frankl's a man search for meaning”
Josh Dubin — 1 mention
“and I was really struck by by his presence by how articulate he was one of the most well-read human beings he was telling me about you know how he finished the Victor Frankel um book man search for meaning”
Sheldon Johnson — 1 mention
“I had read when I was in solitary confinement I read Victor frankl's man search for meaning and one of the things that's that that struck me as being so powerful he says if you have a why then you have a reason to to live”
Michael Shellenberger — 1 mention
“one of my favorite thinkers is viktor frankl who wrote man search for meaning”
David Brooks — 1 mention
“and then there's a I read about this later … from the classic book which I hope everybody's read called man search for meaning by Victor Frankl”
Tony Abbott — 1 mention
“One of the books that I read as a youngster was Viktor Frankl's famous book, 'From Death Camp to Existentialism.' Now, I didn't know too much about existentialism, and I still don't, but I do know that he survived that by focusing on the love he had for his wife and the love he had for his family.”
Logan Ury — 1 mention
“and honestly if you look at all of the mindfulness stuff if you look at the work of Victor Frankle and man Man's Search for meaning so much of it is this idea of creating more space between an action and a reaction”
Brad Stulberg — 1 mention
“so you've got his books next door in the Bookshop and most people know Frankle for his book man search for meaning”
Neri Oxman — 1 mention
“I also think that another kind of way of being or a modality of being that I found helpful is Viktor Frankl wrote this incredible book, "Man's Search for Meaning" after the Holocaust.”
Charlie Kirk — 1 mention
“I've never read it but it sounds very similar to a book that has impacted my life greatly Victor Frankel's Man's Search for meaning”
Bill Burr — 1 mention
“so somebody told me he said if you want to stay out of the depression of that He told me this book and I actually ordered it I was going to read the [ __ ] thing and I forgot to bring it on this trip and it was something along the lines of the purpose of a man or”
Gretchen Rubin — 1 mention
“if people say to me what's the one book I think everybody in the world should read I say Victor Frankel's man search for meaning”
Ava Wetrick — 1 mention
“oh my gosh favorite book has to be Victor Frankel's Man's Search for meaning or um what I just currently referenced out winning the devil blind Napoleon Hill podcast wise impact Theory”
Lewis Howes — 1 mention
“and and she you know she was a her Mentor was Victor Frankel man search for meaning”
Brad Barrett — 1 mention
“Dominic Cortuccio has brought that up from Viktor Frankl's famous quote, and just anytime you can do that in life, right?”
Bo Loy — 1 mention
“Victor Frankel's Man's Search for meaning so that's a book that I read every few ish years and it's just such a deeper part of the world old and like we're talking about choosify and personal finance”
Mohammad Hijab — 1 mention
“I was reading the book the meaning for Life Victor Frank I'm sure you're aware of it where he then produced logo therapy”
Duncan Trussell — 1 mention
“Yeah, of course, man, Search for Meaning.”
Simon Sinek — 1 mention
“Or I just name one of my perennial favorites like, 'Oh, Man's Search for Meaning.' You know?”
Dr. Christian Busch — 1 mention
“it reminds me of viktor frankl and um you know he wrote this amazing book man search for meaning”
Elon Musk — 1 mention
“Man's search for meaning—it's not the whole thing; a search for meaning is, yeah, what's the meaning of life and all, you know? But just generally, like I said, I would encourage people to read broadly in many different subject areas.”
Michael Gervais — 1 mention
“I mean, this is Man's Man's Search for Meaning. Um it's the ultimate book of psychology because it's a psychologist where the case study is himself.”
Paul Bloom — 1 mention
“um because this is um my subtitle the search for meaning is a is a shout out to his book man search for meaning”
Barry Barish — 1 mention
“um it's like uh victor franco has a man search for meaning i have a similar kind of sense of um of the cruelty of human nature”
Tim Pool — 1 mention
“meaning and purpose are a person's best defense against ideologies of any kind highly recommend victor frankel's man searching for a meeting the concept of an existential vacuum helps with understanding the position many of these people are in”
Robert Breedlove — 1 mention
“and as I argue in a lot of my writing actually think that sovereignty inheres within the individual and that we each have our own interiorized space of choice which is something like Victor Frankle called the final human freedom and that we no matter what our circumstances are no matter what exogenous situation we Face we always have this”
Josh Barnett — 1 mention
“you brought up frankel and i'm like yeah frankel's dope answers for meaning uh maslow's great and and i talked to you about how i started to think like man do the ability for human beings to to to live and or potentially flourish in the worst environments you can think of is pretty incredible in and of itself and”
Daniel Amen — 1 mention
“my favorite book or at least it's in the top five is man's search for meaning by victor franklin”
Jay Shetty — 1 mention
“and you talk about this book man says for meaning which i had on my which i had on my bookshelf so i picked it up for this session you talk about this book changing your life”
Heather Morris — 1 mention
“in a second i'm going to guess you'll have read man's search for meaning by viktor frankl”
Manolis Kellis — 1 mention
“i've i often reread this book i'm not sure if you're familiar with this man's search for meaning by viktor frankl and uh he talks about you know his uh living through the holocaust and in the concentration camps”
Kyle Eschenroeder — 1 mention
“And there's Victor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, actually considers suffering suffering well to be one of only three sources of meaning in life.”
Benjamin Hardy — 1 mention
“so what Viktor Frankl said and man search for me have you ever read that one yeah dude isn't that killer”
George MacGill — 1 mention
“for anyone who's read man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl like imagine that and make it extreme”
Nicholas Christakis — 1 mention
“he survives the Nazi concentration camps and he goes and he writes a famous book called man's search for meaning after he's liberated it writes it ten days after his liberation”
Dave Rubin — 1 mention
“so a Viktor Frankl who was in the concentration camps his wife was killed he survives the Nazi concentration camps and he goes and he writes a famous book called man's search for meaning after he's liberated”
Jim Kwik — 1 mention
“it's funny because like one of my favorite books is a book called man's search for meaning my Viktor Frankl”
Jordan Peterson — 1 mention
“you know Victor Frankle who wrote Man's Search for meaning he came to the to a particular conclusion”
Christine Hassler — 1 mention
“man search for remaining have you ever read that book no by Victor Frankle”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 8
“And as long as you have purpose in life, you can survive anything. And Viktor Frankl wrote that book, 'Man's Search for Meaning,' a Holocaust survivor. I mean, a million times worse than anything we went through, but his point was the last of the human freedoms is our freedom to choose our own attitude in any given set of”
“It could be for art, for intellectual history; it’s a classic Viktor Frankl argument from 'Man’s Search for Meaning.' What helped him survive as he was leaving the concentration camps was the debt he owed to the future work he wanted to write to share with the world.”
“Frankl was an Austrian psychologist, a Holocaust survivor, best known for writing Man's Search for Meaning; if you haven't read it, I'd suggest you do—it will make you think as it made Tom Garfinkel think.”
“Aaron Rosenberg wrote in: Victor Frankl wrote in 'Man's Search for Meaning' that when we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Dr. Tan, with this and your experiences in mind, what was a survival situation that surprised you the most in terms of digging deep and confronting yourself?”
“okay I'm gonna try to remember the three important things that Frankel said toward the end of man's search for meaning where he also talks about the patience that he sees in clinical practice”
“The second book that changed my perspective in my early 20s was 'Man's Search for Meaning.'”
“This ties back to 'Man's Search for Meaning' —you must confront that fear and learn to be okay with it.”
“Sorry, this isn't like everybody's just on a Zoom, we're just listening to some book on tape. There's a shaman and he's like kind of leading the charge.”
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“This external source of coherence and inspiration of how to take the leap into the unknown that we humans do. Man search for meaning. LLMs search for meaning.”
“it's first that space between stimulus and response Dominic cortuccio has brought that up from Victor frankl's quote the famous quote”
“David's read so much about the Holocaust and so much about you know uh Man's Search for meaning by Victor Frankl and those kind of guys”