Not Just Yet.

Implicitly, only time will quiet the passions and allow the feelings of being overwhelmed to subside. This wait for quiet, however, must not be understood as thoughtlessness, which is for her willed nonthinking: it is, rather, not thinking just yet.

- Deborah Nelson on Hannah Arendt

Step 1: Step Back must not be confused with inaction. Indecisiveness. Hesitancy. Self-doubt.

Pausing to allow the passions stirred by the stimulus demanding a response to quiet before turning our mind to the content of the decision at hand is a deliberate act of courage and service of both self and other.