Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

My friends, have you heard of this concept of being anti-fragile?

They just love that expression, anti-fragile.

Anti-fragility comes from a book called Anti-Fragile, Things That Gained from Disorder. It's a book that was written a long time ago, maybe 2010, something like that. I read it years ago. But I love this book because the premise is essentially that some things like people or businesses or systems, really anything,

not only survive stress and chaos over time, but they grow stronger because of it.

Right. So when we're shaken, right, when we're squeezed, not, sometimes we think, gosh,

this robs us of something it takes from us. But this book, anti-fragile, this way of looking at

the world is completely different. It means that we withstand challenges, we become resilient and we

become stronger when we are

shaken, when things go wrong. And one expression, I don't remember if this is from the book or

if this is another way of looking at it, but look at the egg and look at the potato.

Okay?

If you put either one in boiling hot water, the egg will harden, right?

You'll have a hard boiled egg, but a potato will soften.

Right? When we boil potatoes, it's so that we can mash them.

And so stress reveals our nature, right? What's inside of us? What are we made of?

So the challenges that come up, right? For some people, that boiling water is going to harden them.

It's going to toughen them. It's going to be a great outcome. For other people, it's going to be

the opposite. We're going to feel weaker under pressure.

So think about yourself, right? Are you anti-fragile? When stress comes up, do you emerge stronger?

Do you emerge a little wiser? Are you better off in the long term?

Now, I don't know about you, but if I don't, I wouldn't, I don't perceive myself as a

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