Individuals can improve their adaptability by diversifying their identity across multiple roles, making them less fragile when one specific pursuit or aspect of their life is disrupted.

“I think it is really helpful to think of your identity like a house and within that house you want to have some different rooms and you might have the room of parent of partner of creative of athlete of employee um you name it”

Adaptability is strengthened by undergoing internal excavation to understand the narratives dictating behavior and stress-testing those narratives against objective reality.

“it strikes me that it's crucial if you're gonna navigate this journey as consciously as possible that you have to do an adequate amount of internal excavation to kind of understand yourself like what is the narrative that you're walking around with that's dictating your behaviors and is that true”