The Human Endowment of Self Awareness

Man has the freedom to choose. Within that freedom are those endowments that make us uniquely human. We can write new programmes for ourselves, totally apart from our instincts and training. This is why an animal's capacity is relatively limited, and man's is unlimited. Our unique human endowments lift us above the animal world. The extent to which we exercise and develop these endowments empowers us to fulfil our uniquely human potential between stimulus and response. Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli but they have a conscious choice based on values. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choicebased on values,. In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people