Advice on Enduring Today's Uncertain, Hostile Times

Adam Savage’s top tip for weathering our current chaos? Embrace empathy, kindness and respect—these aren’t just slogans but the toolkit needed to keep conversations and communities healthy. He doesn’t wish he could rewrite his past, instead he uses every misstep to fuel growth rather than wallow in regret.

He also unpacks the “scarcity model,” the idea that life’s resources and opportunities are finite so your win feels like someone else’s loss—and why that mindset only breeds more tension. And on gatekeeping versus ‘paying your dues’: gatekeeping is about shutting newcomers out, whereas asking people to earn their stripes can actually help them learn and build confidence, not break them down.

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