Outsmarting Your Circumstance

About This Talk

Chris asks how we can be smarter than the circumstances we find ourselves in, especially the confusing ones that upset us or make us sad. Even when a situation isn’t of our making, he says, we have an obligation to understand it: to slow down, not react, and see how it came about.

Key Ideas

• Many of the circumstances we find ourselves in aren’t of our making, but understanding them is still our responsibility.
• Slow down and don’t react, so you can see how the circumstance arose in the first place.
• When you witness a circumstance instead of reacting to it, you become smarter than it.

“We really only successfully move through circumstances when we take the time to slow down.”