Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason

DeFilippo. When I first met Dr. Rick Hansen, I'd never even heard of concepts like resilience

and negativity bias or really even thought about deliberately managing emotional issues at

all. Today, Dr. Rick and I discuss why we can't count on others in the world, but we can

count on our own strengths. And why this somehow isn't nearly as depressing as it sounds.

We'll also uncover why our brains are often teflon for the good and yet velcro for the bad

experiences and memories that we have in our lives. And of course, what we can do about

all that. Last but not least, we'll use a practice Dr. Rick and I have both used to ensure

that we're focused on the right metrics for emotional health, happiness, and other

hippy-to-be concepts that if you're anything like me, you've been pretty negligent at managing

for pretty much your entire life. Spoiler alert, one of the keys to happiness is relationships

and making sure that you build and maintain those. And that's what we're teaching you

how to do in six minute networking, which is a free course from yours truly. If you go

to JordanHarbinger.com slash course, it's just a few minutes per day. You don't have to

enter your card number, any of that BS before you get in there. JordanHarbinger.com slash

course. All right, here's Rick Hansen. One of the first pieces of resilience says,

the path your life, and this is paraphrase because that's I rule. The path your life takes

is dependent upon how to manage your challenges, protect your vulnerabilities, and increase

your resources. Can we break that down a little bit? Because of course, I think everyone

wants to learn how to manage their challenges, protect vulnerabilities, and increase their

resources. It's just that when we're thinking about, especially increase your resources

and protect your vulnerabilities, we're probably not talking about, probably not thinking

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