Emily McDonald

And I have this best friend, she's still on her PhD.

And I got in the car and I was driving to go see her that weekend.

I'm like, I can't wait to, and as soon as I get in the car, the weight just falls off.

Everything is like, I'm just so happy to go and see my best friend.

And as soon as that shifted, this thing that I had been stressed about, that I'd been waiting on, I go on my phone at like a red light or something, and this person had messaged me

the exact thing that I had been stressed about and waiting on.

And it was like the exact opportunity or answer I was waiting on receiving.

And it's like, yeah, sure, we can say, I mean, we can say that your brain is more open to that stuff.

But also, I mean, I don't think that there's necessarily science quite yet to explain, like, yes, my energy shifting, I was able to experience the thing that I wanted.

I don't necessarily know that there's a study that explains why that happened.

But what I do know is that

Every time I really go from that stressed, anxious, you know, attached state to letting go and just feeling good, something good happens.

Yeah.

So, I mean, there's kind of three different things, absolutely on the feeling states and the habits we can get to.

I kind of want to go into the middle where you were saying about kind of what drives us, because this is actually some research that I was looking into, I think yesterday.

I was just, you know, like, what is the number one predictor of success?

Like, what is the number one predictor of success?

And it's grit.

They've shown in studies that it's grit.

What is grit?