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Life Changing Lessons Learned From Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, and Max McKeown

If You Can Learn Something New Every Day, You Can Better Adapt to the Future

Danny Forest
5 min readJul 20, 2018

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Lesson Learned from Charles Darwin

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin

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This is a great lesson learned from how nature works. In Principles, Ray Dalio also mentions the importance of learning from how nature works and how it evolves.

Adaptability is key to our own survival and development.

This has been monumental in my own personal growth. There are many things I used to think I couldn’t do something. When came time to do things out of my comfort zone, I would simply accept that it wasn’t for me or that I couldn’t do it.

One day I said to myself: “Enough is enough!”.

I decided NOW was the time to conquer my fears of height and drowning. I did rock climbing for a bit. I’m still scared, but less so than before. I…

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Danny Forest
Danny Forest

Written by Danny Forest

Polymath. Life Optimizer. Learner. Entrepreneur. Engineer. Writer.

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