Frankl-y Speaking

When I started my new job, my mentor gave me a poster that said "ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING" in big, bold, red letters. She gave it to me so that I would walk into my new job with confidence that I would complete any task assigned to me and overcome any obstacle that I would face in my time there. In reading Man's Search for Meaning, I felt that Frankl was expressing exactly what my mentor expressed to me when I began my new job, but Frankl did so in a much broader manner. What I take from this book is the realization that we have full control of the situations we face in our lives. We can't control what happens to us, but we can definitely control how we are affected by it. We can either have it make us, or break us.