Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) is one of history’s most remarkable testaments to the tenacity of the human spirit. He survived the Holocaust and gave us a classic masterwork of humanism and resilience.

In this video-master piece of a Conference in Toronto, he delivers a powerful message about the most important gift we can give others.

If we take man as he really is, we make him worse, but if we overestimate him …. If we seem to be idealists and are overestimating, overrating man, and looking at him that high, here above, you know what happens? We promote him to what he really can be.
So, we have to be idealists in a way because then we wind up as the true, the real realists.
— Viktor Frankl