Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

Response-Ability

30 Mar 2011 · 1 min

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A short mini-chapter by Brian Johnson (YouTube) titled "Response-Ability." The speaker defines "response ability" as the capacity to pause between a stimulus and an automatic reaction and intentionally choose a more empowered response. The piece is an informal, motivational prompt encouraging listeners to notice triggers, pause, and select better responses in daily life.

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Hi, this is Brian with another mini chapter from A Philosopher's Notes. This one's called Response Ability. You can boil this whole optimism dealio down to one idea. Are you response able? Can you step between stimulus and response and choose the most empowered response? Or at least a much less crappy one? Well, can you pay attention the next time you feel yourself being triggered and see if you can sneak into that little space between stimulus and response? Actually stop the automatic knee jerk response and choose a more empowered one? Well, that's what it's all about. Response ability. Let's step in between that stimulus and our knee jerk response and choose the most empowered response we can come up with. Pretty please. All right. Hope you enjoyed and have an awesome day. See ya.