![]() It’s a book about practical advices of how to heal your soul, how not to live in fear, but to enjoy a full life. The Choice is much more than a book about the survival of the Holocaust. Often, we only don’t ask for things because we are afraid of rejection and we miss out on precious opportunities. You will have more information, and you will be seeing what’s actually real instead of a reality created by your fear. But at worst, you’ll know where you stand. Eger wrote, it doesn’t mean you’ll get it. I repeat, if you want something, ask for it!Īs Dr. I had the same feeling, I wrote about it in the fifth chapter of The Seniority Trap and now I got some confirmation. I was happy to read when she mentioned that if you want something, you should always ask for it. No matter what is going on around you, you can always choose how you respond. Eger quoted, “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, to choose one’s own way.” How people reacted and what attitudes helped them to survive.Īs Frankl wrote and Dr. And I don’t mean the obvious, the way people were tortured and abused, but his observations of people. In that book, he shared his own experiences from death camps, which were very similar to Dr. Frankl was a neurologist, a psychiatrist, the founder of logotherapy and the author of the seminal book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Eger met and developed a friendship with another Holocaust survivor, Dr. It’s about how you interpret your sufferings. ![]() She explains that it’s not about blaming the victims, how could one be blamed who was sent to gas chambers? We become our own jailors when we choose the confines of the victim’s mind.” “We develop a victim’s mind - a way of thinking and being that is rigid, blaming, pessimistic, stuck in the past, unforgiving, punitive, and without healthy limits or boundaries. Suffering comes from the outside, but “in contrast, victimhood comes from the inside.” We can only become victims if we hold on to our victimization. You might suffer, but you don’t have to be a victim. On the other hand, what you can control is how you live in that moment and how you react. Eger said, “whatever plans are being outside our door, I can’t control”. In fact, you have no control over most of the things in life.įollowing the Stoic idea, you should accept this and everything you have no control over just as a fact of life. You might want to think that it is not, but you don’t have control over everything. In her first book, The Choice she shares not only her traumas but what she learned since she was deliberated and how she truly deliberated herself. Edith Eva Eger who is still very active at the age of 94 years, she went on to become a clinical psychologist both to support others’ and her own healing. I don’t want to go through the biography of the family in this article, if you are interested you can read about it in the book.ĭr. All of them were escaping from the communists. Later, two sisters, Edith and Magda immigrated to the USA and Klara went to Australia. She was born as the youngest sister among 3 children in a Jewish family.Īpart from Klara, the middle sister, who was studying violin in Budapest, all of them were deported to Auschwitz in 1944, where the parents were murdered the first day and two girls finally survived the war despite all the different marches and death camps. Edith Eva Eger is a native of Hungary just like me. As I’ve been always interested in history and in psychology, I decided that this book can completely jump my queue and I started to read it almost immediately.ĭr. I learnt about The Choice from Ryan Holiday’s newsletter, like about so many other books.
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