a vehicle and neutral is ready to move in…

Keyword flexibility a vehicle and neutral is ready to move in any direction wants the driver decides to put the car into gear. For humans, when energy is spent, when momentum is gone, shifting our brains to neutral allows us to regroup. After learning to downshift to get yourself as far away as possible from the polls of negative thinking you need to be able to determine your right next step which is the purpose of neutral.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Getting to Neutral by Trevor Moawad

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Researchers even have a name for the trait that predicts who rises and who is crushed — your adversity quotient — and it forecasts, better than talent or intelligence, who will overcome and who will fold — and without enough of it, you are liable to choose a dangerous fork in the road when the hard moment comes. Close behind it is adaptability. It is not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most able to adapt to change — so when you are knocked flat and stuck, learn to shift into neutral, regroup, and find the right next step rather than grinding the same gear, and train yourself to look for Both-And solutions instead of forcing every choice into either-or. Adaptability is, at bottom, emotional agility, and it grows from the same root as a growth mindset — the cognitive flexibility to reappraise a situation and see it in a different light. […] Build the muscle. Face reality, search for meaning, and improvise; keep an anchor aboard before the storm; and lean on the scaffolding of people who have been there. Stay adaptable. It is the adaptable who survive; shift to neutral and find the next step when you're stuck. Persevere to your second wind, and aim not merely to survive the stress but to grow stronger from it. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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