Dr. Tara Narula

So she picked up the goalpost and moved it somewhere else.

So this, and I thought that was such a great, easy to understand image.

You can still have a goal.

You can still aim for it.

It's just in a different place, right?

And I see this a lot in medicine.

You know, there are patients where I can't give them back the heart cells that have died.

I can't give them back the movement of their arm when they've had a stroke.

We can't go back, but we can still help them find a different path towards meaning in their life if they have that flexible thinking.

I thought I might be able to do this.

Okay, I can't do that, but I'm going to shift and I'm going to do this.

And so really that flexible thinking is sort of the second key to remodeling, reshaping the vision

for what you thought your life was going to be into something else, and that's okay.

But the point is, whatever life hits you with, if you can pick up that goalpost and put it somewhere else and know you can still move forward towards it, that image can be life-saving.

It's like the lighthouse that draws you forward.

It pulls you forward.

And that kind of goal, we all need that.

We all need something to continue to strive for that gives us meaning in life, right?

We all have our different meanings for why we're here.

But I think when you lose that meaning, you lose that sense of like, I don't know why I'm here.