You might not have read it carefully. He says in the book that he was lucky. Right down to the last day, where he didn’t get on a truck taking other inmates to

You might not have read it carefully. He says in the book that he was lucky. Right down to the last day, where he didn’t get on a truck taking other inmates to apparent safety because he stayed behind to look after someone (later to discover the men on the truck were executed). [I hope I remember this incident correctly, but you can check] He never presents his mental attitude as sufficient to survive a death camp, only that something like it was necessary. He also doesn’t present it as a scientific study of anything. It’s a first person account with analysis and explanation. When you call it feel good nonsense, I am gobsmacked. Apart from the fact that his ideas demonstrably work, even for skeptical, stoical, atheist, misanthropes like me, the first part of the book is utterly bleak. Do you remember? He is in a DEATH CAMP. He speaks of UNAVOIDABLE SUFFERING. He is giving us his thoughts as he speaks of imaginary conversations with his wife whom he knew must be dead. There’s no “feel good nonsense” here. Read it again.