Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. The words above differed from Covey’s, but an inexact recollection may have led Covey to paraphrase May’s notion. Freedom is the individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one, to pause between stimulus and response and thus to throw his weight, however slight it may be, on the side of one particular response among several possible ones. Westervelt, Article: Freedom and Responsibility Re-Examined by Rollo May, Start , … Continue readingįreedom is thus not the opposite to determinism. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1963, Behavioral Science and Guidance: Proposals and Perspectives edited by Esther Lloyd-Jones and Esther M. The following passage discussed “freedom” and a “pause”. The article titled “Freedom and Responsibility Re-Examined” was authored by the psychologist Rollo May.

QI believes that the top candidate for Covey’s reading material was an article within a 1963 collection called “Behavioral Science and Guidance: Proposals and Perspectives”. This third region is where our real personal values lie. Personality has three main parts: (1) the receiving portion (receptors) that looks out on stimuli (attention and appreciation are its great functions) (2) a responding side (effectors) that looks toward behavior or response and (3) that which lies between stimulus and response whose function is to correlate and adjust behavior to stimulus. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1917 Copyright, The Use of Motives in Teaching Morals and Religion by Thomas Walton Galloway (Professor of Zoology, Beloit College), Chapter 3: Some Essential Natural Elements in Education, … Continue reading Details for this hypothesis are given further below.Īn intriguing thematic precursor appeared in the 1917 book “The Use of Motives in Teaching Morals and Religion” by Thomas Walton Galloway. He may have been reading an article by the influential psychologist Rollo May. Also, the precise phrasing employed by Covey varied over time. Covey stated that he read the passage in a book while he was on sabbatical in Hawaii, but he was unable to recall the name of the book or the author. Instead, the words were popularized by the influential motivational author Stephen R. Quote Investigator: Researchers have been unable to find this passage in the works of Viktor E. I doubt this ascription because no one provides a proper citation. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

In that space is our power to choose our response. Frankl has been credited with the following:īetween stimulus and response there is space. Skinner? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: It is possible to control ones reactions and feelings even when one is faced with frightening hardships. Covey? Rollo May? Thomas Walton Galloway? Sheldon P.

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