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The Gap

The Gap

In life, there's a pause between the incident and the response, where you have a chance to decide how you will behave in a difficult situation.

We can call the space between stimulus and response "the Gap." It's what you do in the Gap that determines who you are and where you go.

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It's what you do in the gap

Gaps offer excellent opportunities to learn, especially when we don't have time to deliberate, when we're not our best, when we don't have any willpower. We may feel justified to behave in a way that the situation dictates.

At that moment, we can choose to compose o...

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