My focus practice, hour after hour, day after day, gives me a sense of clarity and purpose.

I'm trying to learn a front one and a half.

So a flip and a dive, but I'm afraid to keep rotating past the flip.

I'm not sure what I think is going to happen,

but I'm so terrified that I only do a front one and a quarter and just belly flop.

Try after try, the whole summer.

I feel like I'm hanging on a little bit longer each time.

But the tapes show me I'm not.

I think I'm learning to let go of control,

but I'm still gripping it just as tightly.

I think I'm confronting my fear,

but I'm actually powerless against him.

Adam Grant is a professor of organizational psychology at Wharton,

a treasured TED speaker and a multiple New York Times best-selling author. In his book, Think Again, Adam weaves together research and storytelling to help

us stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. In today's meditative story,

Adam takes us to the end of a springboard,

staring down at the water below, a long line of impatient divers behind him.

He discovers that you don't outgrow fear, you outsmart it.

In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories, breathtaking music, and mindfulness prompts so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories.

And that can lead to improvements in our own inner lives.

From Wait What, this is meditative story.

I'm Rohan and I'll be your guide. The body relaxed.

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