How To Find Meaning After Unimaginable Pain | Edith Eger

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Edith Eger survived Auschwitz at 16, became a psychiatrist, and spent decades helping trauma patients before realizing she had never healed herself. This is her philosophy on what it actually means to face the past and finally be free.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.5	Seven grandsons, I think, are the two twins, the two-year-olds?
0:16.1	Are those the youngest grandsons?
0:17.6	Yes, they're youngest, yeah.
0:18.8	So there's 93 years-ish between you and your youngest grandsons you have? They're youngest, yeah. So there's 93 years-ish between you and your youngest grandsons.
0:24.6	Exactly.
0:25.6	I'm curious, what is the, you know, they, at this moment, they don't know the type of life
0:32.6	you've had, right?
0:33.6	Not until they're a little older, will they understand the stories and hear the stories about your whole experience from what
0:40.8	You know their great grandmother went through and how you overcame so many challenges and obstacles and how you became a member of society for hope and inspiration
0:51.3	I'm curious if you could share three lessons with them
0:56.8	to set them up for their life,
1:00.5	what would those three lessons be?
1:02.1	I probably would tell them
1:04.3	that I will never forget what happened.
1:12.5	I don't know what means to overcome.
1:19.3	I don't think I really know exactly what that means,
1:25.1	but I came to terms with it.
1:27.8	I call it my cherished wound.
1:31.1	Cherished wound.
1:32.3	Yes.
1:33.8	I cherished the wound that I learned in the classroom of Auschwitz.
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