After the race, he couldn't understand in that time what made him slow down. But actually he was very lucky he did, because when he got around the next corner,. there was a big pileup in the middle of the racetrack. So his brain obviously said to him, this isn't right. You know, people aren't looking at you coming out of the tunnel, they're looking in the opposite direction. so there must be something going on around the corner. And of course, there was, there was a huge pileup.
Change is a part of life, and it’s a big part of growing and developing. Yet, with change comes uncertainty, and that can cause us to get stuck.
To thrive during change, we need a mental agility that comes from self-awareness, emotional awareness, and situational awareness. It’s about what Elaine Fox calls, switch craft.
Elaine Fox is a leading psychologist and performance coach who’s spent her career working with athletes, military leaders, and executives. What she’s seen is that the most successful people are the ones who can toggle between different approaches, who have an agile mind.
In her book, Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility, Elaine Fox teaches us what it means to be mentally agile and how to master its key components. It’s the perfect book for managing all of the change and uncertainty that surrounds us today.
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The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World by Suzie Sheehy
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