Years ago, at a Self-Improvement workshop by Jerry Stocking, participants were asked to listen to a children's rhyme and repeat it. It was a rather long rhyme and everybody lost track of the sequence of events and stopped in embarrassment.
A tense and nervous atmosphere built up in the room as one person after another failed to recite the entire rhyme. People began to feel that they just had insufficient short term memory to recall and repeat the whole thing.
Then a NASA Aeronautical Engineer, with numerous pauses, got it!
His secret was that he paused. During those pauses, in the space between words, his subconscious mind prompted him with the next line of the verse.
"This," said Jerry Stocking, "was the secret--because the space between things allowed intelligence and creativity to emerge."
Both Deepak Chopra
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