Tamir's counterpart to Frankl's conscious gap: the automatic interpretation that happens before we ever get to choose, trained over years of learning, trauma, belonging or exclusion, work and community. This is the layer he says needs upgrading.
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It's one thing to know that I'm going on a long run and I feel suffering and I feel pain and I'm not going to let it bother me. But it's another thing to actually say, why am I running? Where am I even going?
- Frankl's gap is not enough
Frankl's gap is a conscious choice about how to react. Beneath it, an unconscious layer has already interpreted the stimulus before any choice is made, and that automatic layer is what has…
- Endurance differs from questioning direction
Frankl's method helps you endure the pain of the run. Upgrading your operating system means asking why you're running and where you're going, and only you can answer that.