On Fulfilling Meaning and Agency

We decided to revisit Viktor Frankl - a professor of neurology and psychiatry, whose concepts we were fascinated with long ago and which continue to inspire us today. Carl Rogers wrote about the book we recommend that it is the most valuable contribution to psychological thought in the last half-century. And Joseph Wolpe said about its author that he is the only non-behaviorist whose method has become an important element of behavioral therapy. The idea of "logotherapy" created by Frankl has proven important not only in work but also in the lives of many people. And according to its creator, logotherapy teaches that even tragic and negative aspects of life, such as inevitable suffering, can turn into a triumph of the human spirit, provided we adopt the right attitude to the situation we find ourselves in.

And a fragment from Viktor Frankl's book "Man's Search for Meaning":

Life experience teaches us that man is sometimes pushed by his drives, but pulled by meaning, from which it follows that it is solely up to him to decide whether he wants to fulfill that meaning or not. Thus, fulfilling meaning is invariably associated with the process of making decisions.