Who is actually making your decisions today? You, or your conditioning?

Viktor Frankl famously pointed out that, for we humans, between stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our freedom to choose.

But in the heat of the moment, that space is incredibly narrow. If we aren't practicing, that gap gets immediately filled by the "auto-play of our conditioning" - our oldest, most knee-jerk reactions and defences.

We think we are making a fresh choice, but we are just running a script - and leaving our most distinctive human capacity on the shelf.

A great exchange from Thursday's Navigation Lab on how to widen that gap and reclaim our freedom.