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Begin with Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.
The story
An Uber ride I could not forget.
Years ago, on the way to the Sundance Film Festival, I got into an Uber driven by a young Afghan man. He had learned English from American movies and worked alongside U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan.
He told me that men he knew had later died by suicide. Then he told me what had helped him get steady again: he listened to Man's Search for Meaning five times.
“Holy shit. I do the exact same thing.”
After Ranger School, while dealing with panic attacks, stress, and disordered sleep, I had also returned to Frankl five times. His history was not mine. But the coincidence was too specific to ignore.
John Haven
Captain, U.S. Army, Retired