Living, Writing, Acting (and Thriving!) in The GAP
This is the outline from my recent podcast episode on this subject. A link to the episode is at the bottom. · Definition: an opening or empty space (PB); a break in continuity, like a hiatus (gap year); a wide difference or disparity ("generation gap" or "communication gap"); a mountain pass or a ravine · Brené Brown (authenticity): “minding the gap … the space between where we’re actually standing and where we want to be.” · Experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and linguist Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate , writes that people who acknowledge a “discrepancy between [a] goal and the current state of the world … execute operations that tend to reduce the difference.” · What is the gap between where you are and where you want to be? Goals, aspirations, motivation · In story terms: Robert McKee calls The Gap the a...