Good morning and welcome to the Increase Remapact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,233. As leaders,

whether you're a coach or a parent or somebody who is in the business of guiding and supporting

others, one of your most important responsibilities is to help people think more clearly and adapt more effectively.

And that requires showing them how to adjust, not just what they do, but how they see and how

they interpret what's going on. One of the greatest challenges to this is helping someone grow when they're holding on tightly to something that

used to work. Maybe it was a mindset, a routine, a strategy that brought them success in the

past, but now the environment has shifted. The old way isn't working anymore. It's not failure.

They might see the need that changes failure, but it's just a

signal. And this reminds me of the story of the peppered moth during the Industrial Revolution.

In England, these moths originally had a light coloring, and it helped them blend into the tree bark to avoid

predators but when pollution from the factories darkened the trees with soot the lighter moths

stood out and were eaten and the darker moths they were once the minority they now had advantage

because they began to thrive.

And then many years later, the environment cleaned up and a lighter moths returned.

The moths didn't fail necessarily.

They adapted.

And that's the game.

That's leadership.

That's growth.

So when you're working with someone who's resistant to change, you want to help them reframe it, not as abandoning what made them great, but as evolving to meet the demands of the

here and now, the changing of the environment. Sometimes the key to future success isn't doubling

down on the past. It's having the humility and awareness to say, okay, it's time to

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