Gap Between Stimulus and Response

The idea Tamir credits to Viktor Frankl: there is a moment between what happens to us and how we react, and in it we can choose our response, whether to a hot stove, a driver cutting us off, or a broken heart.

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Connections

References

• Viktor Frankl

In tension with

• Unconscious Gap

Explored through

• Man's Search for Meaning
• Why am I running at all?
• Frankl's gap is not enough
• Choose your response in the gap
• Endurance differs from questioning direction