# The Gap Between Stimulus and Response

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Podcast: [ReThink Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rethink-podcast-1369359)
Published: 2026-05-01T14:00:00+00:00
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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 ...

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