Freedom To Choose – What It Means To Be Human
There is a space, an amount of time, between the moment we experience stimulus and our response. In other words, when something happens, we always have the freedom to choose how we react.
I was listening to a podcast by Srini Rao from the Unmistakable Creative recently and Srini was talking with Kevin Honeycutt. There has been a running theme lately with Srini and some of his interviews about the gap between stimulus and response. When talking with Kevin, that gap was compared to a gasket or a grommet. A head gasket in a vehicle engine allows one piece of metal to respond to the impact of another – it creates a gap which allows wiggle room. Without that wiggle room the two pieces of metal would destroy each other because they would hit each other hard enough to ruin their value...