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If you are flexible and adaptable, you will never suffer. That is guaranteed. It is also guaranteed, depending on how much ground you have to cover, that you will face mild to severe discomfort when developing flexibility and adaptability.

First, what is flexibility and adaptability:

• It is listening to your audience with an open mind and being able to repeat what is truly on your audience’s mind.
• It is adjusting your approach, whether it is your behavior, your process, or specific steps to what you do.
• It is finding creative solutions by minimizing or eliminating the need to compromise by anyone.

What it is not:

• It is not abandoning your values and beliefs. You will stay true to your values beliefs, but modify your approach.
• It is not abandoning who you are. You do not have to give up who you are as a person.
• It is not saying “yes” when you really mean “no.”

The inability to think critically and inability to sort through your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and simply reacting is the foundation for inflexibility. Once you sort it all out, the discipline to behave differently is what will make you flexible and adaptable.