In 1963, the American psychologist Rollo May wrote in “Freedom and Responsibility Re-Examined” that “human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness.” Stephen Covey, most likely influenced by May’s article, wrote, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
