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Viktor Frankl’s line about the space between stimulus and response has been quoted so often it has almost stopped meaning anything. It appears on office posters, in leadership decks, in therapy waiting rooms. The version most people know reads: Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
The quote is usually presented as motivational, a small piece of Stoic wisdom about self-control. Wha

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