The Gap Between Stimulus and Response

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of the gap between stimulus and response, drawing on the experiences of Viktor Frankl during his time in concentration camps.

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 ...

People in this episode

Host: V Kelly B

Topics covered

• response
• freedom
• psychology
• human experience
• Nazi concentration camps

Keywords

• stimulus
• response
• Viktor Frankl
• freedom
• psychology
• concentration camps
• human experience

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