Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience

CHAPTER 3

The Change-Proof Model

Pause, Ask, Choose

In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

—WARREN BUFFETT

Over the years, I’ve built a very consistent ritual into my mornings, a simple series of practices that I do almost every day. They ground me and help me prepare, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, for the day ahead. There’s one ritual that I cannot miss, no matter what. That ritual always begins the same way: I sit up in bed each morning, I put my feet on the floor, and I say, “I love my life.”

Over time, that ritual has transformed from a ritual into something almost automatic. It’s a habit. Even on days when I’m swirling down the vortex of indecision, ...