The Gap Between Stimulus and Response

Send us Fan Mail The pause between what happens and how you respond is not a luxury. It's the practice. Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist, a writer, a husband. Then he was arrested. He spent three years in Nazi concentration camps — Auschwitz, Dachau — and lost nearly everyone he loved. > > And inside that, he found something no one could take from him. > > He called it a gap. A space between what happened to him and how he responded. He believed that space was where human freedom ...