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Building Antifragility: Thriving Through Challenge with Nick Holton & Adam Wright
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What if resilience isn’t enough?
In this episode of Grow the Good, I sit down with Dr. Nick Holton and Dr. Adam Wright, co-founders of the Antifragile Academy, to explore how to move beyond just surviving life’s stressors and instead use them to grow stronger. Nick and Adam share a science-backed, integrative framework that blends psychology, physiology, and purpose to help you thrive under pressure, navigate transitions, and build a more grounded sense of identity.
We unpack the difference between resilience and antifragility, how to reframe volatility as a feature, not a flaw, of growth, and why thriving requires both distress tolerance and meaning. Whether you’re an athlete, a high performer, or simply someone who wants to show up better in life, this conversation will expand how you think about potential, identity, and well-being.
Top 5 Takeaways:
- Antifragility vs. resilience: Resilience helps you bounce back; Antifragility helps you grow stronger through challenge.
- Thriving = pleasantness + distress tolerance: True thriving includes discomfort and meaning, not just happiness.
- The 4-Lens Framework: Understand yourself through cognitive (top-down), physiological (bottom-up), environmental (outside-in), and values-based (inside-out) perspectives.
- Identity beyond performance: You are not just what you do. Growth requires detaching self-worth from achievement.
Volatility as opportunity: Change, uncertainty, and stress can be leveraged for transformation if you engage intentionally.
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The Grow the Good Podcast is produced by Palm Tree Pod Co.
447 episodes
Manage episode 516655997 series 1458561
What if resilience isn’t enough?
In this episode of Grow the Good, I sit down with Dr. Nick Holton and Dr. Adam Wright, co-founders of the Antifragile Academy, to explore how to move beyond just surviving life’s stressors and instead use them to grow stronger. Nick and Adam share a science-backed, integrative framework that blends psychology, physiology, and purpose to help you thrive under pressure, navigate transitions, and build a more grounded sense of identity.
We unpack the difference between resilience and antifragility, how to reframe volatility as a feature, not a flaw, of growth, and why thriving requires both distress tolerance and meaning. Whether you’re an athlete, a high performer, or simply someone who wants to show up better in life, this conversation will expand how you think about potential, identity, and well-being.
Top 5 Takeaways:
- Antifragility vs. resilience: Resilience helps you bounce back; Antifragility helps you grow stronger through challenge.
- Thriving = pleasantness + distress tolerance: True thriving includes discomfort and meaning, not just happiness.
- The 4-Lens Framework: Understand yourself through cognitive (top-down), physiological (bottom-up), environmental (outside-in), and values-based (inside-out) perspectives.
- Identity beyond performance: You are not just what you do. Growth requires detaching self-worth from achievement.
Volatility as opportunity: Change, uncertainty, and stress can be leveraged for transformation if you engage intentionally.
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The Grow the Good Podcast is produced by Palm Tree Pod Co.
447 episodes
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