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I'm Rufus Griscom, and this is the next big idea.

Today, how do you excel when everything is changing?

More than 2,000 years ago, Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher, observed that,

quote, there is nothing permanent except change.

It's still true, isn't it?

Change is a constant in all of our lives, changing where you live or what you do, changing

your relationships, changing in my case, the color of my hair, which is turning gray.

Some changes, like having kids, are good.

Some, like losing a loved one, are painful.

But despite the inevitability of change, many of us aren't very good at dealing with it.

We resist it, we deny it, and we pay a price for that.

So today, we're going to try and learn how to become masters of change, with the help

of Brad Stolberg, best-selling author of the practice of groundedness, peak performance,

and just out this week, master of change, how to excel when everything is changing, including

you.

He spoke with our producer, Caleb Bissinger.

Here's Caleb.

So before we get to my conversation with Brad, I want to tell a quick story.

Back in the summer of 2000, Tommy Caldwell, who's one of the best rock climbers in the

world, took a trip with his girlfriend and two other climbers to Kyrgyzstan.

It felt like kind of a dream come true, out in the middle of this adventure with this

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