Finding meaning isn't just about improving your memorization skills, of course. Finding meaning may be the purpose of life itself. In one of the most powerful books showing the importance of meaning in the human condition, Man's Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl describes his experiences in the Nazi death camps during WWII.4 He begins with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Frankl contended that an inmate's sense of meaning and purpose was a factor in his or her ability to survive in the camps. Frankl concluded that meaning is
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