Why Adaptability Is Your Biggest Advantage

Dr. K’s Guide to Mental Health explores Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and Meditation with 150+ video chapters in a Final Fantasy-inspired skilltree.

#shorts #drk #mentalhealth

[Xeractyll]

"It's not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It's the one most adaptable to change." -Charles Darwin

[sarahs.]

Remember, adapting is different from masking!

Try new things, make adjustments, and find what works for you (don't just go with what you think others expect of you).

[eebbaa]

i feel unable to adapt. i feel like there’s a broken mechanism in the part of my mind that is supposed to help me to change my approach. i realize that what i’m doing isn’t working, but i can’t bridge the gap between failure and discerning a new solution in order to execute successful iterations of a new process.

[matchalover]

That's what I'm trying to do right now!!! I realized I kept making the same mistakes in terms of my academic and personal life. I'll take this as a sign to tweak my strategies better!!

[MentalHealthPower]

I imagine not being able to adapt comes from not being able to go out of your physical, mental or emotional comfort zone. It is as if they are afraid of experiencing the discomfort of learning something new. Maybe this comes from feeling inadequate from being a beginner at something.

[steggopotamus]

I used to have a friend like this, we were playing unreal tournament back in the day in regular LAN parties, and he'd get frustrated that he couldn't beat us sometimes. Well, that's because even though he had the best reflexes in the group, he always walked the same way around the same corners, even without camping, (which was basically an accepted practice with us, predators camp 🤷) it was really easy to predict where he was going to be, so by changing things up the slightest bit, we could get an advantage over him.

I eventually said something, after a while, I think I tried to say it with some tact, but I can be very direct sometimes. But he was like this in every game. Even board games his only strategy was revenge. He'd aimlessly play for a bit until someone made a move that xould sort of kinda be seen as negative for his position on the board, then single minded revenge. He was a Chill dude irl, but had 0 natural skill for strategizing.

[wgabrys]

Also, that's the way of learning new things - forget theory, just do something, it will be a failure and you will adapt by checking the theory and apply that to the practice and again, again... ❤

[wgabrys]

Adaptivity as a real IQ test, not some paper puzzles (when you may be stressed or just not in the best form)

[cheetor]

Yes Dr. K, it ia true, you adapt and you are successful, but from experience I tell you is the most difficult thing to do, not because it is hard to do in terms of skills but in motivation and loneliness. Adapting is lonely, it will take you from who you were to another version of you which most of the time will burn those bridges you had with people. Adapting all the time is the most lonely and exhausting thing to do. So I regulate it, I only adapt where I have to, despite having some bad traits, I like them, they remind me of childhood, of family and friends, of simpler times. So I want to have someone as toxic as I am, even if for awhile.

[SkyTetra]

Speaking of adoptable, my dad is really good at this in our family, now I realize that the choices he's been making that I question in the past

[Alex-bluh]

I have other problems. I feel like I can, subconsciously want and constantly do change and adapt in the most effective way. Like a shape shifter. I don't even know who is me.

[Pindoria]

I feel like this is why people might stay depressed. They don’t want to gain adaptability by getting out of their comfort zone. Example: many depressed people like to lay in bed because they feel the most safest. They have to deal with less of the outside world.
Not sure the best way for a depressed person to gain the ability to get out there comfort zone as it’s hard to

[NelsonGuedes]

Figuring out exactly what needs to change and how it's probably the hardest part. And then changing little by little.

[interdimensionalsailboat]

"Try again"
"I think i need to try something else"
"WhY aRe YoU gIvInG uP???"

[andrewli]

Thank you! Now with this video, I hope people will finally learn to adapt and cater to me!! 😂

[ThePeteriarchy]

Life is just Dark Souls 2 and I didn't level ADP...

[TLW]

My superpower is my ability to adapt to change very quickly… like a xenomorph does. 😁

[AaronZ]

I’m the third kind of person who may understand the need to change myself but doesn’t give a fuck hard enough

[olivergreen]

It’s not for everyone though. I can see why many don’t change and honestly I don’t blame them.

[GorgieClarissa]

I feel exhausted. Im at the point where i couldnt care less if i got hit by a but. Other people are like energizer bunnies... but really, what's the point?