Why Smart People Still Fall Apart in Chaos - Liz Tran

Negotiate Anything

American Negotiation Institute

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Most people are optimizing for the wrong kind of smart — and it's costing them everything when the world shifts. Liz Tran is a former venture capital executive, CEO coach, and author of AQ. She spent years inside the highest-pressure rooms in tech before walking away to build a coaching practice rooted in one conviction: the people who thrive in chaos aren't the smartest or the most emotionally intelligent — they're the most adaptable. Connect with Liz Website: https://liz-tran.com/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liztran1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liztranwrites/ Headshot Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N6ik2WblfgHVX7NSRbfpR96g56f4Uxd6/view

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0:00.0	You've heard of IQ, you've heard of EQ, but there's a third kind of intelligence, and it might be the one that actually matters most right now.
0:09.0	AQ is your capacity to handle that change, uncertainty and unknown, and truly what I believe to be the intelligence that we need for the world today because of how much uncertainty there is.
0:22.7	My guest today is Liz Tran, venture capital executive, CEO coach, and author of AQ.
0:29.2	And in this episode, we're getting into the one skill that separates the people who thrive in
0:34.2	chaos from the ones who get swallowed by it.
0:37.1	Now when I'm feeling discomfort, when I'm like dreading a conversation or I'm, you know,
0:42.2	dreading a task that I have to do or even like I don't want to respond to this email.
0:46.8	Like I want to just close my inbox and not even like look at it or read it.
0:50.3	I actually think, okay, discomfort is signal that you are growing.
0:55.9	If you wait until you know exactly how the outcome is going to unfold,
1:00.7	then you're not making the right bat.
1:02.3	It will be too late.
1:03.4	You will have missed the moment, right?
1:05.6	You're just doing something that is still within your status quo.
1:08.6	And what we're all tasked to do is to broaden and widen the aperture of our comfort zone.
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