Instability is this state that throws our brains into this chaotic mode where we start stressing and hankering after information, but it's also as we know uncertainty instability change is where we grow and flourish the most.

Welcome to the Jordan Harbinger Show. I'm Jordan Harbinger, as always I'm here with my producer Jason to fill up.

And on this episode we're talking with my friend Gabriel Mizrahi. He is the head of editorial here on the Jordan Harbinger Show. He's been my friend for years and years, but he's also a subject matter expert and a lot of different areas because that's what we make him do around here. Today we're talking about managing instability, learning to cope with instability, capitalizing on it and turning it into an advantage. Now Gabriel has just brought some brilliant insights today on what we might call the change paradox or the instant

instability conundrum as humans were wired to seek pleasure avoid pain and do so as early as possible, but that turns us into these stability seeking machines, which means that uncertainty and stress can really make a mess out of us really big mess depending on how big the instability in situation really is.

Of course though we only seem to really evolve when there's change when there's instability these are our opportunities to evolve so we're going to be discussing that paradox how to turn this into an advantage instead of just something that causes you to lose sleep and we'll explore some of the emotional and brain processes neuroscience.

Why we hate instability when it arises how we solve the paradox there's a lot of practicals in here for something that a lot of us face and maybe don't think about consciously or something that we do think about consciously that keeps us up all night every night and that's what we want to avoid here. I'm going through some of this right now. I wanted to share it with you and I wanted to do it in a way that gave you something to use straight out of the box as we always do here on the Jordan Harbinger Show. So here we go with Gabriel Mizrahi.

So Gabriel thanks for coming back man. I know that you are a subject matter expert in a ton of different subject matters areas because that's what we've voiced upon you here.

My pleasure. I'm happy to be back and it's one of my favorite topics we're talking about today and I think it's universal every single person I know is dealt with it so I'm happy to be talking about it with you.

So long time listeners know about this this particular situation about me but if you're new to the show the brief overview is that I'm no longer with this company that I was with for 11 years that I co founded and now we're doing the Jordan Harbinger Show as you know by listening to this but it's a rather sudden and we're kind of starting from quote unquote scratch.

What this means for me in a nutshell here is that there's uncertainty instability in a situation that I never thought I would be in in my whole life kind of even in my wildest dreams and yet here we are and it's creating all of these questions.

Can I do this do I have what it takes still can I rebuild how long is it going to take and it's causing all these sort of to put it dramatically existential questions right where I'm just like can this happen in a way that leaves me more stable is this going to be good for me because of course what all my friends are saying when I call and tell them these situations and fellow entrepreneurs are like this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to you this seems scary now but it's going to be so great.

But in my brain and I know in the brains of anyone listening who's ever been through a scary situation whether it's a hell scare or a business scare it doesn't feel that doesn't make you feel any better dammit you know I'm going to look back on this in a year and blah blah blah blah blah that's not helpful.

So I want to talk about instability and uncertainty with you because you've researched the crap out of this and I want to help people who've either been through this are going through this right now or what which is inevitable going through this in the future.

Does that make sense?

100% and I feel like every single person who has either made a life change or has had a life change

foisted upon them by circumstance or whatever knows what it's like to not understand or know fully what the future is going to be and what kind of anxiety that brings up.

It's funny because like what you were talking about is this very human desire to like create stability and to count on the way life is right now

and what is so interesting about life is that it always surprises us.

We constantly are reminded that no matter how stable or certain things seem they're going to change.

Sometimes they change in small ways and sometimes they change in these huge dramatic ways and often very quickly.

So it's funny because I think a lot of the self help content out there and I'm sure you've seen this when you like if you Google how to manage uncertainty or how to deal with instability.

You find all of these blog posts and video podcasts about how to like cope with it or reduce it.

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