The Daily Ascent Molly Carmel What You're Craving
The Daily Ascent Molly Carmel What You're Craving
Operation Podcast
Ep. 170 | You Don't Have to Keep the First Thought You Have
13 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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I was on my way to Lourdes, sitting next to a man who coughed the entire flight, and I was catastrophizing at altitude in a way that was decidedly not my wise mind. My friend Karen said five words to me in the airplane aisle that I have not stopped thinking about since. 

Viktor Frankl writes in Man's Search for Meaning: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." 

This is an episode about the space between what happens and how you respond — and the freedom that lives there. 

Question to carry into your day:
What have you decided about a situation in your life that you might not have to keep deciding? 

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