Quotes About Adaptation

Do What You Can, with What You Have, Right Where You Are

to achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.

Una buena forma de recuperarse de cualquier situación que no resulte de la manera que esperabas es que busques lo bueno en el resultado inesperado.

Sé flexible. Ábrete al hecho de que las cosas no siempre salen exactamente como esperabas. Mantén tu mente abierta

Las especies que sobreviven no son las más fuertes ni las más inteligentes, sino aquellas que se adaptan mejor al cambio

Based on your current results, what changes are you going to have to make to ensure that your products and services of tomorrow are exactly what the customers will be wanting at that time?

to develop a quality that you lack, act as if you already had that quality in every situation where it is called for." In modern terms, however, we say, "Fake it until you make it.

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

What it really means is that the general must understand that he is not a free agent and cannot hope to become one. He has to work within the limitations imposed by the fact that he is working for a democracy, which means that at times he must modify or abandon the soundest military plan and make do with a second-best.

Now that she had lived in two worlds, would she ever again be completely at home in either of them? Or would part of her always long for the other, no matter where she was?

Biology isn't just genes playing out some unalterable script. It is sensitive to the world around it

The number of disruptors a person can expect to experience in an adult life is around three dozen. That's an average of one every twelve to eighteen months.

Life is the story you tell yourself. But how you tell that story—are you a hero, victim, lover, warrior, caretaker, believer—matters a great deal. How you adapt that story—how you revise, rethink, and rewrite your personal narrative as things change, lurch, or go wrong in your life—matters even more.

Many disruptors, like adopting a child, say, or starting a new job, would not traditionally be defined as negative, yet they're still disruptive. Even the most customarily negative life events, like losing a spouse or being fired, sometimes become catalysts for reinvention. Disruptors are simply deviations from daily life.

THE LINEAR LIFE IS DEAD ? THE NONLINEAR LIFE INVOLVES MORE LIFE TRANSITIONS ? LIFE TRANSITIONS ARE A SKILL WE CAN, AND MUST, MASTER

Feldenkrais Method. His core insight: When we go through periods of turmoil, our bodies share the brunt. To create new selves, we have to create new ways of moving. We have to tweak how we walk, sit, stand, lie, dance, even have sex. We have to rewrite the story not just of our lives, but of our bodies.

The average person goes through three to five of these massive reorientations in their adult lives; their average duration, my data show, is five years. When you do the math, that means nearly half our lives are spent responding to one of these episodes.

THE AVERAGE PERSON GOES THROUGH ONE DISRUPTOR EVERY 12–18 MONTHS

This leads to my twin warnings: TRANSITIONS ARE COMING. BE PREPARED.

The world of work is in a sustained period of upheaval. The average worker today holds twelve different jobs before the age of fifty. Those with higher education can expect to change jobs fifteen times and alter their skill set three. The typical job now lasts four years;

All in, I concluded that the total number of disruptors the average adult faces is between thirty and forty.

THE LINEAR LIFE IS DEAD ? THE NONLINEAR LIFE INVOLVES MORE LIFE TRANSITIONS

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that