The Space Between

On the interval between stimulus and response - and why everything lives there

It might have been a text. An email. Something you said out loud in a meeting, or at the dinner table, or under your breath, just loud enough to be heard. And the moment it left you - you catch yourself thinking: that's not what I meant. That's not who I want to be.

We all move faster than we mean to. But somewhere along the way, we decided that the pause itself was the problem - that the healthy, authentic, emotionally available person responds immediately, fully, without the filter of reflection.

This episode makes the case that this is one of the dumbest ideas of our time. Drawing on Viktor Frankl's insight that between stimulus and response there is a space - and that everyth ...