Quote of the day: "Between stimulus and response there is a space"
Imagine someone says something that instantly gets under your skin. Your phone lights up with a message you did not expect. A colleague makes a sharp comment. Your child refuses to listen. Your first instinct arrives before you have even had time to think.But what if there is a tiny space between what happens and what you do next?That idea sits at the heart of one of the most widely shared lines in psychology and mental-health conversations: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” It is commonly attributed to Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. But there is a fascinating problem with the quote: the exact words do not appear in Frankl’s published works.And that makes the story behind the line almost as interesting as the line itself.
