I’m a great fan of Stephen Covey and his Seven Habits books. Part of his Big Idea is that between stimulus and response is choice…
Accepting that we have this choice means that we have to accept responsibility for our actions. It all quite nicely fits in with Alexander Technique as well which again notes that physical habits can be ‘inhibited’ by internally saying ‘no’ rather than acting/responding immediately.
I guess why I’m noting this here is that there will be times when factors other than conscious logic might have to be relied upon to provide that choice. But the choice has to be conscious … or its not choice, its reaction.
Blimey, what am I getting at? Ok, using this S-R link concept and considering what fits in the middle gives us a handle on the kind of ‘choice’ that might be made. With suggestion and persuasion, subtle and even invisible cues might be presented when logic allows no real criteria for logical choice, but determine the choice. And I mean determine in its strongest form. Just like Derren Brown, putting something between stimulus and response provides a level of control that appeals to the emotion and the subconcious … the ‘illogical’ processes that really make us go one way or the other.
What’s between stimulus and response? You decide…
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