Let's take a break from our repetitive and bustling daily routines and ponder for a moment. Have you ever truly asked yourself-what's really meaningful in your life?

If you don't have an answer yet, CGTN's Wang Mangmang would like to recommend Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, which inspired her to consciously live as meaningful a life as possible.

After three years of suffering in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl developed logotheraphy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning") –a theory which has helped many people develop values as well as find a sense of purpose and meaning in life.

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." 

Dr. Viktor E. Frankl was a very prominent psychiatrist and neurologist in the 20th century.

Having spent three years in four different concentration camps with his parents, brothers and pregnant wife, Frankl was the only one to survive after suffering from dark and unspeakable horror.

However, such an experience not only gave him the will to live and survive, but also enabled him to come up with his famous logotherapy theory, which has been credited in the field as one of the most significant pieces of research since Freud and Adler. 

Frankl also fully developed his postwar career and lived life to the full by giving lectures at 209 universities on five continents, obtaining a pilot's license at the age of 67 and even trying his hand at mountain climbing in old age.

When it comes to psychology, philosophy and theology, many may simply be overawed by the jargon and concepts in these three fields, not to mention psychotherapeutic method. It can't be denied that most people are not very familiar with what's behind such subject matter. 

However, Wang insists that the book is "quite easy to read",  even if you don't really know too much about psychological vocabulary. 

"It shocks your mind," said Wang. "It shocks your heart and also we could remember that part of history very vividly."

We as human beings tend to be driven by our desires a lot of the times – big or small, good or bad, strong or weak. By studying psychology, Wang believes we can better understand the reasoning behind our desires, and therefore better manage them and better manage our lives.

Television is one of the most creative and demanding industries, and suffering and enjoyment are constant factors in the job, especially if you're a news anchor like Wang.

 "This is a very demanding and consuming industry so we have to deal with different kinds of pressure and circumstances," said Wang. "But we are still trying to findmeaning out of what we do."

Wang also quoted a line from the preface of the book during the interview, making an analogy between success and meaning.

"Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it, and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. You are just going to let it happen by not caring about it."

In Wang's words, meanwhile, don't push yourself too hard to make or find meaning in everything. Gradually with time, experiences and understanding of this world, one day you will find meaning for the events that happen around you, "for the very meaning of your existence."

Although life is full of pain, guilt and death, you will always have the ability to choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose. At its core, life does not owe you happiness, if offers you meaning.

Divided into two parts, this book mainly tells the story in vivid detail of how Frankl survived Nazi concentration camps, and introduces his theory therapy based on the search for meaning. 

Regarded as one of "the ten most influential books in the United States" in 1991, this book has been translated into 24 languages, reprinted 73 times and still holds relevance with its concept of exploring the ultimate meaning in life nearly 30 years later.

Wang Mangmang hosts Asia Today and is also co-anchor of China 24, both as flagship programs of CGTN. Starting as a correspondent of the channel, she has excelledin covering natural disasters and interviewed many political figures since 2006.

In 2008,Wang was named China's outstanding journalist for her coverage of the Sichuan earthquake, and named the country's best journalist by the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television in 2009.

Wang also received thousands of views, shares and praise for her professionalism on Chinese social media after an incident last year, when she accidentally kicked off her shoes during a live show but carried on introducing the agenda without missing a beat.