Short YouTube-style resilience tip by Adam Markel explaining a simple mental technique: shift your mindset to neutral (no judgment) and then ask “What’s the creative opportunity?” to move from problem-focused thinking into solution-creation. The clip positions the technique as immediately usable for individuals and teams to find empowering solutions in difficult situations.
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Hi, I'm Adam and I'm a resilience guy. I've spent my entire career focused on what it takes to be at your best even in the most difficult conditions, including writing a best selling book on resilience called Pivot. Here's one powerful tip that you and your teams can use today. It's called the mindset. Reset and reframe. And here's how it works. Take any situation that you can think of and simply shift your mind into neutral. By neutral, I mean you're not judging it as good, bad, right, wrong, fair or unfair. You're simply neutral on it for the moment. To give your mind the ability to sort of shift out of that place of finding problems and move into a place where you can create solutions, you'll ask yourself this one question. Once you've attained that neutral mindset, even for a few moments, the question is what? What's the creative opportunity? That's the all important question to help you to move toward an empowering solution. What's the creative opportunity presented right now? There's always an opportunity. We just can't always see it. Especially when our minds are focused on more fear based thinking about what could go wrong or where we feel threatened or what's missing. So this is a powerful way for you to model and for you to get your teams to find creative solutions out of the most difficult and challenging situations. Situations. It's a small tip that can help you to move forward in a big, big way.
