Frankl, a survivor of four different Nazi concentration camps who went on to found a school of psychotherapy, decided that the search to find meaning in life is our most powerful driving force. And, according to Frankl, our response to unavoidable suffering is one of the chief ways of finding that meaning. “Despair is suffering without meaning,” he wrote; and “everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”