The Liz Moody Podcast - The Only 3 Skills I'm Focusing On To Future Proof Myself (No Matter What's Coming)

Starting point is 00:00:00 A lot of us these days, myself very much included, feel really uncertain about the future. There are new reports every week about the jobs that AI is going to impact. And I have friends who have been dealing with layoffs. I have friends who don't know what to tell their kids to study in college. The future feels really uncertain and uncertainty is scary. There's a study that's fascinating that basically says that people would rather get a guaranteed electric shock than not know whether they were going to get an electric shock. we prefer a future that feels certain even if it is worse.

Starting point is 00:00:32 This is why so many people end up staying in bad relationships or staying in terrible friendships or staying in terrible jobs because that certainty is so comforting for this incredibly primal part of our brains. Regardless of how you or I might feel about AI, it is very clear that the world is changing and it's changing quickly. I am not interested in this episode in getting into the moral or ethical implications of AI. My interest in this episode is positioning you as well as possible to deal with the changing landscape of the world, whether that's because of AI or any other factors. So I have put together the three qualities, the three skills that I think are going to be the most helpful and that science is already pointing to being the most helpful in this ever-changing world.

Starting point is 00:01:15 Today we're going to go through all three of those things and I'm going to share the science behind why they matter and how you can cultivate them no matter where you are starting from, no matter how your brain naturally works. All of this works no matter what your job is. They transfer across domains and industries, and also they are very relevant for our personal lives too. Welcome to the Liz Moody podcast where we are not going to add a million things to your life in the name of biohacking or being healthy. No, we're going to help you figure out the exact levers to pull that will make you feel how you want to feel, that will get you the results that you want to have.

Starting point is 00:01:48 And no matter what you are going through, no matter what you're dealing with, we always, always believe that there's a lever. The original ideas for a lot of what we're going to talk about today came when I was interviewing Dr. David Eagleman, who is a Stanford neuroscientist. And I was asking him, the world is changing so quickly. A lot of what kids are learning in schools these days isn't really going to be relevant in a future where jobs are going to be different. The things that we need to know are going to be different. So how can we best position ourselves given all of that? And he said if it were up to me right now and I was the one designing curriculums for kids in schools, I would teach two things because I think these are the two things that really matter right now. I would be teaching creativity and I would be teaching critical thinking. So I started thinking about how that's obviously applicable for kids, but it's incredibly

Starting point is 00:02:38 applicable for adults too. And then I have one thing that I want to add to that, which is agency. I think that that combination, the trifecta of agency and critical thinking and creativity are the three things that are going to serve as superpowers no matter what direction the world goes, no matter what is coming for us in the future. So today, we're going to talk about why these things matter, what the science says about why they matter, and then how anybody can cultivate them no matter where you are starting from. By the end of this episode, you will feel less anxious about the future. You're going to feel more prepared and ready to not only survive,

Starting point is 00:03:11 but to thrive in this landscape that's ever evolving. I want to position you to be the winner through all of this. We're going to start with critical thinking, and then we're going to go into creativity, and then we're going to go into agency. And I would encourage you to listen through the end. This is going to be a really short episode because in many ways I think that agency is the most important skill or quality that we can cultivate.

Starting point is 00:03:35 I think it's going to be the most important thing in the coming years. And the good news is it's incredibly cultivatable. There are some really easy, actionable things that we can do to begin to cultivate that sense of agency in our life. And there's also one tool that's going to naturally increase

Starting point is 00:03:51 all three of these things without you having to do any specific work on each of them. It's fun. It's easy. Longtime listeners at the podcast might know what it is, might be able to guess it. But I'm going to share that at the end too. Okay, let's start with critical thinking. One of the reasons that Dr. Eagleman said that critical thinking is going to be so important. He kind of went through this historical analogy. He talked about the printing press. He talked about calculators. He talked about Google. And he said that every single time that one of these new things was invented, people panicked. were like, what's going to happen to human intelligence? We're all going to get dumber if we rely on these things instead of our brains. I remember when I was a kid, we weren't allowed to use calculators

Starting point is 00:04:31 on tests because there were these fears that these calculators prevented us from learning, which feels ridiculous because what actually has happened is humans get smarter as they're able to utilize these tools more. If you can use a calculator on a test, you can take all of the brain resources that we're thinking about adding and subtracting and dividing and doing all of these things, and you can use those resources to more intensive problem solving. That is what has happened every single time. When we take this less critical thinking thing off of our plate, is more rote thinking. We take that off of our plate. We open up the capacity to do more critical thinking. I was at a dinner recently with a bunch of crazy people. There were like CEOs of major

Starting point is 00:05:16 companies that you've definitely heard of. There were professors. There were scientists. there were educators, and we were all talking about the future. And somebody said something that stuck in my head ever since. Which is that we used to be in a time where the answers were important. Now we're entering a time where because all these answers are going to be at our fingertips, the people who ask the best questions are going to be the people who are best positioned to get ahead. That is what critical thinking is. Instead of your brain being this filing box for all the stuff that we used to learn,

Starting point is 00:05:50 and school, like on this date, this thing happened, it is having the intellectual capacity to zoom back out and ask questions like, why does this historical event even matter in the context of what's happened in the past and what's happening today and what's going to happen in the future? The way that I'm thinking about it is this. Knowledge used to be the thing that gave us power. Over time, that's become less and less true because knowledge has become more widely available. Sitting there and spouting off facts does not give you any of. advantage in the world, whereas 100 years ago, 200 years ago, that was incredibly privileged information. Now, instead of knowledge being the currency of our time, it's what are we doing

Starting point is 00:06:30 with this knowledge? How are we utilizing this knowledge to solve real problems? That is where critical thinking comes in. The bad news is that we live in a time where critical thinking has become increasingly rare. There is a lot of group think these days, which is driven by algorithms and by our primal desires to not be kicked out of the groups that we inhabit, trying to be part of different in groups and outgroups. We're like, well, I'm a Republican. What do Republicans think? I'm a Democrat. What do Democrats think? And because we have all of this information at our fingertips, we're often told how we feel before we even get a chance to reflect on it. I remember when Taylor Swift's new album came out, I felt like I knew how I was supposed

Starting point is 00:07:14 to feel about it before I even got a chance to listen to it. I wasn't supposed to like it. I was supposed to think that the songs were too poppy, that the lyrics weren't complex enough. I had all of that information before I had even finished consuming the album. And I had it pretty much against my will. I was not searching for this. This was popping up on my algorithm. This was being fed to me in articles. And because we have this incredibly primal desire to be part of the group, to not be kicked out of the group, without even being conscious of it, our brains take on these opinions like super subconsciously, which results in us robbing ourselves of our ability to think critically at a time where critical thinking matters

Starting point is 00:07:57 more than ever. So that is actually one of the top ways that I practice critical thinking in my life. When I'm taking in a new piece of art or a new idea, I force myself to consciously question, what do I think? If I watch a movie before I'm reading the reviews of the movie or I'm going on Reddit threads. I am asking myself, what did I like about the movie? What did I dislike? What did it make me think about? How do I feel about this movie? As much as I possibly can. And same with books, same with albums, and same with ideas. We live in a time where these incredibly complicated, nuanced ideas like immigration are reduced to very partisan soundbites, really designed to tell you what you should think without asking you to engage in any critical

Starting point is 00:08:42 thinking about the subject. I ask myself, well, what do I actually know about this? And what do I actually think about this? I also try as much as I can to practice something that's called metacognition, which is essentially thinking about why and how you are thinking about something. It's like thinking about your thinking. Studies consistently show that people who pause to ask themselves, how do I know this? What would change my mind? Outperform people who do not have those questions going through their head on critical thinking tasks and on reasoning tasks. So in practice, this would look like when you were thinking about something, let's say you have a thought about immigration.

Starting point is 00:09:18 Ask yourself, how do I know this? And what would change my mind about this belief that I hold? Simply having literally just like those two questions, that level of thinking about your thinking is going to increase your critical thinking capacity. Something else that Eagleman suggested and that I try to practice in my own life is arguing the opposite of what you believe to be true and doing it really. earnestly. Sometimes I'll do this with Zach or I'll do this with my friends. And it's actually kind of a fun dinner party game that you can play. It's to take a belief that you hold to be very

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Starting point is 00:17:20 thinking. It's above art. It's above all technical skills. And the reason for that is that a lot of the things that AI can do well eliminates more of the rote routine cognitive tasks. It can do something that you repeat, that you do over and over and over really well. Because it can do wrote things well, it amplifies the importance of something that's more judgment-heavy, something that's more about taste, something that's more about that human layer. LLabs are predictive models. They are taking everything that exists in the world and they're essentially predicting what is the next most probable word or solution or thing to say next. Creativity breaks that. It is producing outputs that didn't exist before, which is increasing its value in a world where it's easier than ever

Starting point is 00:18:05 to produce the most predicted response. The other thing that I want to talk about here is that the reason this time feels so scary is because it is uncertain. That's what we talked about at the very beginning of the episode. We don't know what the next five years, the next 10 years are going to look like, and that is what makes it feel so scary. But uncertainty, by definition, presents these problems that we have not seen before, and creativity is going to be the thing that lets us create solutions to these new problems. The more uncertain the world is, the more of a premium creativity is going to be, because it's the ability to synthesize new solutions for all these new problems that are inherent to this incredibly uncertain moment. So how can we cultivate creative thinking?

Starting point is 00:18:49 Eagleman defined creative thinking is essentially having your brain absorb all of these different inputs and then breaking and bending and blending these inputs into remixes. And I love this because it means that one of the best ways to increase your creative thinking capacity is to give your brain new and interesting inputs. So go to art museums, read books that you wouldn't normally read, watch movies that you wouldn't normally watch. And then going back to what we talked about with critical thinking when you do all of these things, ask yourself not only what do I think about this, what is my reaction to this, but then also prompt your brain in the direction of that bending and breaking and remixing.

Starting point is 00:19:29 How can you force your brain to start making these connections for things that don't feel inherently and obviously connected? But like that's the bonus homework assignment. The really big thing that I want you to do here is just increase your inputs. Any art form is going to help with creativity. Any inputs that are interesting, read new articles, have new conversations, any of that is going to help increase your creative thinking. But I do want to give a special shout out to reading fiction here.

Starting point is 00:19:58 There was a study in the Journal of Research and Personality that found that reading literary fiction specifically increased your creative thinking scores because fiction essentially forces you to live inside the brain of another person, inside another world entirely. Maybe you're living in a science fiction novel in a world that does not exist on our planet in a timeline that we're not currently living in. Maybe you're living in World War II Amsterdam. Fiction, more than movies, more than any other art form that we have, really gives you the capacity to live inside another person's brain

Starting point is 00:20:31 in this incredibly close and intimate way, which forces you to inhabit a different internal model of the world. Your brain is always trying to run these models of the world and then being forced to live inside somebody else's model, even if it's not a real person, breaks that. and it forces your brain to think creatively. Also, I just love reading fiction. So I'm going to take any opportunity to point out the benefits of reading fiction.

Starting point is 00:20:56 I also want to emphasize that increasing your capacity for creative thinking does not mean that you need a creative skill. You don't need to be able to paint or draw or write or play music. First of all, and this is a pet opinion, I don't think there's such a thing as a bad dancer and I don't think there's such a thing as a bad creative. I think it is so subjective if you are trying to. dance, you are dancing. If you are moving a paintbrush on a canvas, you are painting. But outside of that, you do not need any traditional creative skills to think creatively. We're talking about thinking

Starting point is 00:21:28 creatively here. You just need to expose yourself to new input and then ask yourself, how can I remix these? How can I think critically about these? And then remix them in interesting novel ways. I would also add, stop telling yourself that you're not a creative person. Our words, create our sense of our possibilities for our lives. So you sitting around and telling yourself, I'm not a creative person, is doing nothing but limiting your possibilities. There's also really interesting research that found that what's called creative self-efficacy, which is essentially your belief in your own creativity, your own creative capacity, is one of the strongest predictors of being able to adaptively cope under stress. So people who

Starting point is 00:22:09 not only think creatively, but trust themselves to think creatively, who believe that they can think creatively, are going to experience the world in a different way, and they're going to produce better solutions. They're going to be able to navigate the experience of uncertainty differently. And this is just, this is not being a creative. This is just believing that you can think creatively. So I don't want to hear anybody out there being like, well, I'm not a creative. I'm not that kind of brained person. No, hooey, I don't believe it. Okay, last, agency. This is the skill that all of the other skills and qualities rely on, because if you have creative of thinking, if you have critical thinking, but you're not doing anything with any of those things,

Starting point is 00:22:48 then nothing is going to change in your life. How many of us know somebody who's had, say, like an idea for a company? And they're like, okay, I'm going to read all these books on how to start a company. Okay, I'm going to buy a URL for my company. Okay, I'm going to work on my logo for my company. And then they never actually launch the company. We need to be able to take agency to be able to actually have the impact that we want to have on our lives. There is so much psychological research going back over 50 years on what's called our locus of control. If you have an external locus of control, you have the belief that control lies externally or things outside of us are creating the outcomes versus an internal locus of control, which is the belief that we are

Starting point is 00:23:32 responsible for creating our outcomes. People with a stronger internal locus of control have been found in research to have more career success, better outcomes, and also less stress. They feel better generally. They feel more empowered. This is not to say that external factors don't matter. Obviously, we live in the society that we live in. There are economic factors. There are so many different things at play. But if you have more of an internal locus of control, if you have a belief that the way that you engage with the world is going to change some things, you're going to act in favor of that belief. You're going to seek out new information. You're going to try, at least, to solve problems. You're going to interpret setbacks as feedback, as things that you can learn

Starting point is 00:24:17 from, as things that you can work off of as information, rather than like, oh, this means that I shouldn't do this. This means that I can't do this. This means that this is not possible for me. It's going to change not only the outcomes, but it's also going to change the way that you are engaging with every single thing that you come across on the way to those outcomes. This is one of my most fervent goals for this podcast. This is what I see as my job. We are not going to be able to change all of the external circumstances. Although I also do believe that by changing our individual circumstances, that does shape

Starting point is 00:24:53 the collective, but that's not the point right now. My job is to help you figure out where your control lies. What are the levers that you can pull? and how can I help you identify them and then pull them? That's what agency is. What is my power here and how do I exercise that power? I believe that we always, always, always have some power and it's our job to figure out what it is. Even if you do not believe that for yourself, I believe it so strongly I can give you some of that belief.

Starting point is 00:25:25 Take on my belief. This is my number one tip for having agency, okay? Ready for it? go in with the assumption that there is a lever that you can pull and that it is your job to find out what it is. Go in with the assumption that there is something that is within your control and it is your job to find it. The other top thing that I find helpful with cultivating agency is realizing that small wins are going to enable you to have bigger wins. So the more that you can exercise small agency, even if it's in unrelated areas in your life, if you're worried about your job,

Starting point is 00:25:58 Can you have a small win in your relationship where you maybe bring up a conversation that might have scared you and then you talk through that with your partner? So it doesn't have to be in the same area. If you're scared that you might never find a life partner, can you commit to going to the gym so you do get a workout in so you get those mental health benefits, let's say three days a week? Small agency is going to give you a sense of self-efficacy. It's going to give you a sense of trust in yourself. It's going to give you a belief that you can and do make a difference in your own life.

Starting point is 00:26:28 that when bigger, harder challenges confront you, you're going to be like, okay, I know that I have a lever here because I've pulled all of these levers before and they were effective in all these different domains in my life. So I know I have a lever here. I just need to find it. Small wins also mean breaking down the bigger challenges, the bigger goals into smaller component pieces. You do not want your action step to be find a new job. You want your action step to be, spend 30 minutes reviewing my resume, spend 30 minutes trying to learn a new skill. When tasks feel really daunting, it's almost impossible to have agency because our brain just gets really overwhelmed and then we shut down. One of the best ways to have agency is to break tasks

Starting point is 00:27:09 into the smallest chunks possible because that's going to give you the start at momentum that you need to do the task. It has like really not very overwhelming. It's not very scary. And then you're going to do the task and then you're going to get the win, which is going to create the momentum to do even more tasks. There's one thing that you can do that's going to actually help build all three of these things without even having to consciously think about it at all. If you guessed it earlier, perhaps you get a Liz Moody Gold Star. I'm giving it to you right now. It is the novelty rule. Hands down. Doing a novel thing, it could be very small. Every single day is going to increase your critical thinking skills because you're in a new situation. So let's say you're driving home,

Starting point is 00:27:47 a new route from work. You're going to have to think critically. You're going to be like, wait, do I turn here? Do I turn over there? Being in any new situation is going to force your brain to think critically. You're also getting new creative inputs. You are seeing things that you didn't see before. You are smelling things that you didn't smell before. You are tasting things that you did not taste before. You are engaging with these inputs in different ways than you have been exposed to before. And then three, you have to have agency to get through new situations. It's forcing agency, but it's this really fun, enjoyable way to force yourself to have agency instead of it feeling like a homework assignment. If you do nothing but the novelty rule, which is do one small novel thing

Starting point is 00:28:32 every day, this can take a minute or two, it can take longer, you are going to naturally develop all three of the skills that we just talked about. So you can take a new route home from work. You can do a crossword puzzle that you wouldn't normally do. You can read an article that you wouldn't normally read. You can have a conversation with a friend about something that you normally wouldn't have talked to them about. You can do that dinner party game that we talked about earlier. You can try to crochet. You can try a new sport. You can try a new workout at the gym. You can try a new recipe. There are so many opportunities and options for this. But one small novel thing every single day is going to increase your critical thinking. It's going to

Starting point is 00:29:09 increase your creative thinking. It's going to increase your agency. And it's going to make you better position for whatever the future throws at you. So pick one thing right now. Just like anything that comes to mind, pick one thing and then commit to doing it tomorrow. I hope this made you feel less anxious. I hope it made you feel empowered. I know this feels like a scary moment for a lot of us, although if that's not you, if this doesn't feel like a scary moment for you, Mazel, I'm happy for you. Lean into that. But if this does feel like a scary moment for you, I just want you to know that you, me, we have all navigated so much uncertainty before and we have always come out the other side. And I feel, I personally feel so much better just knowing that

Starting point is 00:29:50 there are these simple, actionable things that I can do that are scientifically should. And I can do that are scientifically shown to make an outsized impact. I'm also curious, what do you think are going to be the most important skills or qualities as we go forward into this new future? How are you navigating the uncertainty of this moment? I'd love to know in the comments. Also, if you're like, one of those people was like, I don't know why I listened to this episode because I'm super optimistic and I feel great.

Starting point is 00:30:13 Drop that in the comments too, because I would love to hear from you. If this episode resonated with you, please send a link to somebody that you think might benefit from everything in here. You can start working on cultivating these three qualities together. Make sure that you're following the show on Apple or Spotify. You can watch full video episodes on Spotify. So if you're watching right now, hello. And as always, you can find all the discount codes that you heard in this episode at

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Starting point is 00:32:24 which is essentially the dose and a metric that a lot of red light companies do not even disclose. And also it uses red light, which helps with the surface stuff like your skin and stuff like that, and near infrared light, which is going to penetrate deeper into your cells. You just put it over whatever area you want to target. So I'll put it over my lower belly to help with period cramps and it makes a huge difference. I use it for headaches. So I'll like put it over my head. and it makes them basically go away. It's amazing. Or I'll just sit with my loombox during a short

Starting point is 00:32:52 meditation or breathwork for mitochondrial support and having it like on my skin on my face. I've gotten a lot of compliments on my skin health recently and I fully give Loombox a lot of credit for that. Loombox is third party tested for radiance. Remember, that is the dose. That is the thing that most red light companies are not even testing for, much less disclosing, which is crazy. It's also third party tested for wavelength and it's FDA registered, which is so, so rare. I think of a lot of red lights is more like beauty gadgets and then this is more like a medical device that can also be used for all the beauty purposes too. Plus it's portable so you can use it anywhere on your body and you can also like take it on vacation with you. Now is the perfect

Starting point is 00:33:33 time to try loombox. You can use my link for 40% off. Just head to the loombox.com slash liz. That is the loombox.com slash Liz for 40% off. Here's something that most people don't know about beef sticks. Nearly every single one on the market, including a lot of of the ones that seem healthy, are made with conventionally raised beef and preserved with something called encapsulated citric acid or ECA. And ECA has been linked in case studies to inflammation symptoms like brain fog, low energy, joint discomfort, and gut issues, which explains why so many people feel kind of gross after eating them and just assume that beef sticks aren't for them, despite beef sticks being a great source of protein and one of the best savory on-the-go snacks.

Starting point is 00:34:18 Paleo Valley beefsticks are completely different and the difference starts at the source. They use 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef from small-scale regenerative American farms, not factory farms. Grass-fed beef has an improved omega-6 to omega-3 ratio. It has higher levels of vitamin A and E. It has conjugated linoleic acid and the super antioxidant glutathione. And instead of chemical preservatives, they are naturally fermented using these same processes is like a kimchi or a sauerkraut, which means a long shelf life and gut-friendly, more bioavailable

Starting point is 00:34:53 nutrients, no added nitrates or nitrites with zero grams of sugar. I have loved Paleo Valley for years. They create some of my favorite energy bars and protein powders too, and they just put an incredible amount of thought and care into all of their sourcing. Their superfood bar is actually one of the very few that my personal RD approved in terms of the sugar, the fat, and the fiber ratio, it's really, really hard to find bars that aren't too high in sugar or that have fiber or don't have other weird ingredients. And these ones pass mustard. The red velvet and then the apple cinnamon are my favorite flavors. Also the dark chocolate. Honestly, they're all really good. But the red velvets, like I haven't had anything like that before. I really love it.

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