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The most quoted line in self-help is attributed to Viktor Frankl — “between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space is our power to choose our response” — and almost everyone misreads what it is actually asking of them
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The gap Frankl actually describedFrankl watched men in the camps who had every reason, by any behaviorist calculation, to become identical.
The “space” Frankl pointed to is not a comfortable pause.
The research on why the space mattersPsychologists have been quietly measuring something adjacent to Frankl’s space for decades, though they call it by a different name.
What they share, functionally, is a habitual willingness to occupy the space Frankl described — to treat the moment after a stimulus as territory that belongs to them.
Almost every therapeutic modality — cognitive behavioural, dialectical behavioural, acceptance and commitment, psychodynamic — is, at bottom, teaching clients to notice and expand the space Frankl described.