336R: The Choice for Compassion, with Edith Eger

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Edith Eger: The Choice
Edith Eger is one of the few living Holocaust survivors to remember the horrors of the camps. Today, at 90 years old, Edie is a renowned psychologist and speaker who specializes in treating patients with traumatic stress disorders. She is author of the The Choice: Embrace the Possible*.
Key Points

It’s not what happens in life, it’s what we do with it.
The power we have is to choose to respond, not react.
Sometimes seemingly insignificant worries are emblematic of greater pain.
If you hate a person, they don’t suffer — you do. There’s nothing wrong with anger, it’s how you channel it.
Underneath anger is a lot of pain.

Resources Mentioned

The Choice: Embrace the Possible* by Edith Eger
Man’s Search for Meaning* by Viktor E. Frankl

Interview Notes
Download my highlights from The Choice in PDF format (free membership required).
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0:00.0	Hi Dave Stahoviac here host of the Coaching for Leaders Podcast. If you heard last week's episode you already know I'm taking a brief break on airing new episodes until Monday January 8th, but I'm returning today with a rebroadcast on the theme of courage.
0:17.3	You heard Al McDonald's story last week.
0:19.8	This week, I bring you a past conversation with Edith Eager. In World War II, Edith and her family were
0:27.1	forced into the concentration camp at Auschwitz. When soldiers liberated the camps, someone noticed her hand moving in a pile of bodies.
0:36.8	She survived, but not only did she survive, she became a psychologist and has helped countless others find their own courage and compassion.
0:47.8	Her book, The Choice, is one of the most extraordinary things I've ever read.
0:53.4	I can't think of anyone with a more courageous voice
0:56.5	than Edith Eager.
0:58.1	She's 96 years old today, and she was 90
1:01.0	when we recorded this conversation.
1:03.0	This is a rebroadcast of Coaching for Leaders, episode 336.
1:09.1	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. innovate learning, maximizing human potential.
1:15.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
1:21.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host. Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't
1:26.2	born, they're made. And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that
1:31.7	will empower you to become a better leader.
1:35.1	I am so glad that you tuned in for this conversation because today a conversation one that every leader, I think I dare say every leader would benefit from hearing,
1:49.2	because so much of what we do, the work we do as leaders is about compassion, it is about forgiveness in some ways,
2:00.0	and it is always about dare I say love.
2:03.0	The work we do to develop people, to care about people,
2:07.0	and today's guest is someone who perhaps more than any guest I've ever had on this show,
2:14.1	not only knows about this from firsthand experience,
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