Jim Kwik

You want to be more resilient.

Resilience is...

in the form of challenge or struggle, you bounce back.

You're resilient.

You take a hit and you bounce back to baseline.

Cognitive anti-fragility is not just bouncing back, it's bouncing forward.

It's a law in nature and biology.

For example, hormesis or hormetic response.

Like a lot of biohackers talk about this, like temperature, cold therapy, or heat adaption.

That's a hormetic response.

We're getting stronger because we're challenging ourselves.

A child's immune system.

We know that children at an early age that are exposed to more bacteria, different forms, their immune system is stronger.

So that's anti-fragility, right?

They're not just resilient, they're actually stronger because that challenge led to change.

But are we doing hard things?

And we don't necessarily have to seek hard things because a lot of life can be hard also as well.

But you don't want things to break you where you're so rigid.

That's where cognitive flexibility comes in because if you're rigid, you break.

But if you're more like bamboo, you bend, right?