The Cabrera Lab Podcast #69: Overthinking, Adaptability, and the Fast-and-Right Mindset
Jun 11, 2025
Discover how systems thinking can help you face life's challenges head-on. The hosts share a four-step process for quick adaptation, emphasizing the importance of mental fitness and practicing responses before crises occur. They dive into how emotions can signal flawed mental models and clarify why what we call 'overthinking' is often just a misunderstanding. With engaging examples, you’ll learn to embrace reality, test your assumptions, and reframe setbacks into opportunities, all while cultivating a mindset that's ready for whatever comes next.
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Love Reality Before You Act
- Embrace reality first to reduce wasted time and resistance.
- Then inspect and adapt your mental model before acting to align with what is true.
Build Capacity With Deliberate Practice
- Practice systems thinking skills ahead of crises to build capacity for action.
- Train deliberately so you have the capability volume ready when change arrives.
Predictable Change Deserves Predictable Practice
- Because change is predictable, you can and should practice for it.
- Being adaptive comes from repeated training, not just knowing the concepts.
