Adaptability
Subject in Self-Improvement
Adaptability has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Passion Struck with John R. Miles. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alec LitowitzInvestor, entrepreneur, founder of Magnetar, and author of The Adaptability Quotient
Litowitz predicts IQ will become downloadable and cease to differentiate people.
“And soon IQ is going to be downloadable. That's not going to separate people”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827 (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 57:54
Litowitz says an absence of feedback signals that one's mission is wrong and needs updating.
“when you hear nothing back when there is nothing to get a feedback loop on then you're probably on the wrong mission and it has to be updated”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827 (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 1:00:21
Litowitz urges people to anchor identity in adaptability so they update rather than defend outdated answers.
“If you have an identity stuck to adaptability, you'll update when the world changes”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827 (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 48:29
Litowitz says Blockbuster executed well within an obsolete frame while Netflix had the correct frame.
“Blockbuster was swimming really fast, giving you popcorn and Raisinets inside a store that was selling you DVDs. Wrong frame. Netflix had the frame”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827 (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 40:40
John R. MilesHost of the Passion Struck podcast and author of The Mattering Effect
Miles recounts telling a Korn Ferry assessor that adaptability, not EQ, would be the most important trait of the next era.
“I think the most important thing in the next era is going to be adaptability because I know I've had to change myself like seven or eight times”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827 (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 33:08
Podcasts
- Passion Struck with John R. Miles · 1 episode
Episodes
You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827Passion Struck with John R. Miles · Oct 1, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Investor Alec Litowitz tells John R. Miles why adaptability, not IQ, EQ, or grit, is the defining skill of an AI-driven second cognitive revolution.