Viktor Frankl was a Holocaust survivor, a renowned psychiatrist, and the founder of a branch of psychotherapy called logotherapy. Logotherapy’s core assumption is that man is primarily motivated towards meaning (vs. pleasure, power, etc.), and that meaning can be found even in suffering (e.g., building reports using Report Builder 1.0). Accordingly, Frankl characterizes pathological behavior as that which prevents one from experiencing meaning.

One of Frankl’s more interesting observat...