#420 Skills Sprint: Adaptability
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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's skill is all about adaptability and this is where you are matching your skills and your |
| 0:09.4 | strengths to a situation. So you're taking the things that you've got, the abilities you've got, |
| 0:14.4 | but you're really thinking about what does this opportunity or this moment need most right now |
| 0:19.4 | and that ability to kind of flex to use them in |
| 0:22.1 | different ways is what we're talking about today as we're reflecting on adaptability this is never |
| 0:27.3 | about being someone that you're not i think it's always about starting with yourself and sort of |
| 0:33.4 | stretching yourself in different directions it's sort of sensing it's being able to read the room, but fundamentally you are still |
| 0:41.1 | you. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | And we all have adaptability. |
| 0:43.5 | I think often people are more adaptable than they give themselves credit for, but there's |
| 0:47.5 | definitely a watch out here to not adapt so much that you no longer feel like you're |
| 0:53.1 | you anymore. |
| 0:53.7 | So for today's skill sprint, |
| 0:55.8 | we've taken inspiration from Natalie Frato. So Natalie did a brilliant talk all about the idea of |
| 1:02.6 | adaptability quotient, your AQ. And she talks about three things that contribute to adaptability. |
| 1:09.2 | And they are what if questions unlearning the ability |
| 1:13.8 | to override what you already know with new information and explorers versus exploiters. So we thought |
| 1:21.6 | we'd take a couple of those ideas and then bring those to life for our listeners. So I'm going to |
| 1:25.7 | talk about unlearning because it always sticks to me. |
| 1:28.3 | Sarah goes, you always go on about the backwards bike experiment. |
| 1:30.8 | You do always go on about it. |
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