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Adam Savage's Tested: Advice on Weathering Today's Uncertain, Hostile Times

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Adam Savage says the key to navigating these weird, hostile times is simple: empathy, kindness and respect. He wouldn’t go back and rewrite his own history—those missteps are what made him who he is today.

He unpacks the “scarcity model” (the idea that there’s only so much to go around, so we hoard and compete) and draws a clear line between healthy “paying your dues” (earning the right to do cool stuff) and toxic gatekeeping (shutting others out for no good reason).

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