Crisis to Opportunity (Podcast) – Dr Jim Taylor

In Episode #5 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, Reaction vs. Self-possession I explore how your reaction to a crisis can be dictated by either your primitive instincts or self-possession. Your instinctive reaction will likely be immediate, urgent, and intense, none of which will be helpful in most modern-day crises. In contract, a response that […]

In Episode #4 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, Threat vs. Challenge, I explore how the way you perceive the crisis, as either a threat or a challenge, determines how you think, feel, and respond to it. If you react to a crisis as a threat, you trigger your primitive survival instinct which leads you […]

In Episode #3 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, I explore the difference between the survival and thrival instincts and their impact on your reactions to crises you may face today. The survival instinct was very effective on the Serengeti 300,000 years ago, but the thrival instinct (defined as the ability to prosper; grow or develop […]

Episode #2 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast will explore how the primitive instincts and reactions that have served us so well in crises since we became humans no longer serve us in the 21st century where the crises we face now differ so greatly from those experienced by our ancestors.

In this first episode of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, I will explore the qualities that make a crisis a crisis, offer the surprising meanings of the word ‘crisis’ in other languages, provide a list of crises that we may face, and offer a definition of a crisis that will act as a shared starting […]