Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Choose Your Response: Viktor Frankl's Space Power #shorts

19 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube short, Josh Trent engages with another speaker about Viktor Frankl’s insight that the true power lies in the space between a stimulus and our response. The speaker explains that most people act immediately on triggers, lacking a pause. By intentionally creating a pause—"the space"—one can choose a different reaction, which in turn rewires the nervous system, forming new neural pathways and allowing the new response to become a habitual option. The conversation emphasizes that this conscious choice can break old patterns and foster personal growth.

Finally, choose.
Can I choose a different response?
Requires the pausing that we talked about. Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning, has a fantastic quote on this where it says the stimulus, right, is what creates then that response, but my power is in the space that I can create. Most people don't have a space between their trigger and their response. And so if I can create that space, now have the power to choose a different response than what I would've done before, and that will create new programming, new map for my nervous system to be able to say, well, we we did this other response one time, what if we did that again instead of the one that we've done for most of our life?
I think at this point, anytime I ever talk about healing or addressing the human being, it can never come from just one thing anymore.