Emily McDonald

It's kind of like, okay, like what makes, like what is the number one predictor of success?

And it's perseverance, right?

So consistency, like just keep going no matter what.

And that's multiplied by how passionate you are, whether it is from this place of love or this place of fear.

And what I know to be true scientifically is that we are, you know,

we are less likely to get what we want from this state of desperation and just from kind of the neuroscience fact that when we are stressed, when we are anxious, we sort of get this tunnel vision where we are less open to opportunities or alternate paths, alternate choices.

Maybe this one path that you have, like we have this goal and I've had this happen to me in my own life where I have this goal and I think I know the way.

I think I know the way.

And it's not working on that way.

And this one specific thing is just not working on that way.

And I actually, it was in yoga whenever I was in my meditation.

And it came to me that, you know, maybe the way that you think that you know it's going to work isn't the way.

And maybe, you know, it's actually a different way.

And it can still happen and still work for you the way that you want, but it's a different, it's not necessarily in this way.

And it allowed me to just drop into that state of kind of surrender and trust.

And actually, when I first went to my PhD,

I had trust and surrender written on sticky notes everywhere because it was just such this state of I have no idea what's going to happen.

I don't I know anyone there.

I was just going into this brand new experience completely blind.

And yeah, and that really helped me through.