If you've got a brain surgeon or an astronaut, right?

These folks are put in really ridiculously stressful situations daily so that when they're actually in that discomfort, when they're actually in a crisis,

they're able to think clearly and logically.

For the rest of us, we avoid discomfort so much that we don't build our capacity to meet it.

And part of the solution is being willing to put yourself in really tough situations.

That's Anne Grady. She's a seasoned keynote speaker and resilience expert who equips professionals with the tools to adapt, lead, and grow through change. She's also the bestselling author of Evololvability, growing forward when life goes sideways. So you'll learn, one, why to seek out the second greatest threat to your brain. Two, how to optimize your three most precious resources. And three, the trick to stop dwelling on your anger. And if you had a quick summary write up with the actionable wisdom that Anne shares, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis.

This is How to Be Awesome at your job. And now here's Anne. Anne, welcome back. I am so happy to be

back, Pete. Thanks for having me. Oh, I'm excited to talk about your good stuff.

Evolvability. Growing forward when life goes sideways, we were just chatting. Adaptability on

the Strengths finder assessment is my dead last strength. You might even call it a weakness,

but that's forbidden in their world to say such words.

So, yeah, this sounds very useful.

Could you kick us off with the really surprising discovery you've made about this stuff while put together the book?

Well, it was kind of what led me to write the book.

So I've got a long history of my child has some severe mental illness and autism and

developmental delays.

And so I spent years kind of in crisis mode.

And a few years ago, my friends tried to get me to go camping for my birthday.

And I would have rather had a colonoscopy than go camping.

Like, it was the last thing I ever wanted to do.

But long story short, I went.

I fell in love with it.

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