Adaptability

What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

Adapt.

verb

1. make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.

The skill of adaptation has proven invaluable in my lifetime. And I say skill specifically, because I believe we can train ourselves through new experiences to adapt to the world around us.

While rigid discipline is often necessary, that should not prevent your pursuit of adaptability, nor should you allow it to smother your creativity (which is essential to adapting various materials to new uses). One of the keys to creative adaptability is to simply find different ways to solve a problem, utilizing tools outside of the ordinary.

To increase your mental adaptability, it is important to develop habits that encourage your growth mindset. While there are limits to what we can achieve, most never meet those limits due to their own laziness. A growth mindset will increase the enjoyment that comes from learning new things, and breaking through new boundaries.

Strength and flexibility are both key to physical adaptability. Additionally, fasting challenges and breathing challenges allow you to push the limits of what your body is able to achieve. Even the simplest of routines can start to help you grow in both skills, and thusly allow you to adapt to more complex tasks in life.

Similarly, cold and heat exposure training can allow you to adapt to the elements, and training in high stress situations can help you adapt to dangerous and emergent conditions.