Trust Your Adaptability, Not Just Your Plan
Insight of the Day: Trust in your adaptability, not your plan.
Overthinking comes from not trusting yourself. We plan every detail to avoid uncertainty, but life doesn’t work like that. Real freedom is trusting your ability to adapt.
Insight of the Day: Trust in your adaptability, not your plan.
Sahil Bloom says:
The lack of self-trust is the cause of a tremendous amount of overthinking. It is a lack of trust in your ability to make the right decision, to navigate to your desired destination.
Consider this simple metaphor:
The explorer doesn’t set out on his voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm and that he will stay perfectly on course; but rather, in his ability to adapt when the inevitable storms and chaos arrive.
You are the explorer and life is your voyage. You don’t need to place your trust in the perfect plan, but just in your ability to adapt.
Planning is fine, but beware the perils of over-planning. As Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Be the explorer: Make a plan, set sail, and trust in your ability to adapt when the inevitable punches of the sea start raining down on you.
Plan if you must, but true confidence comes from adaptability. Life will throw its punches — trust yourself to handle them. Make a plan, start moving, and adapt as you go.
