Preparing for Life's Uncertainties With Carly Taylor

Hardiness with Dr Paul Taylor · Jul 5, 2026 · 8m · transcript

You can't stop life surprising you, but you can train for it. This week: hardiness, hard winter training, and one small language shift you can use today.

This week on Mojo Monday Carly is looking at something we all live with and rarely prepare for, which is the fact that life is uncertain. We're wired to crave certainty, and when life does the one thing it always does and surprises us, we can crumble, partly because so much of the advice we're given trains us for the good days and almost none of it trains us for the hard ones. Drawing on the Stoic philosopher Epictetus and his idea of hard…