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A Productive Conversation · 2026-05-06 · 48 min · 8,428 words

Max McKeown Talks About SuperAdaptability, Metaplasticity, and Thriving in an Age of Overwhelm

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Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardy.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Hi, I'm Dr.

Max McEwen and I'm ready to have a productive conversation. with Mike Vardy Dr. Max, Max, thanks so much for joining me today. Uh, I really appreciate this is so this is interesting because um I've been uh you know I've I've followed your work in the past, uh, and when I got notification that you have you had a new book that was coming out, super adaptability, uh, I really wanted to have this conversation. So

Um, thank you so much for taking the time to be with me today. I really appreciate it. Looking forward to it. So, um, we before we hit record, I was going through like, here are all the things that I really appreciated about your book. And uh, there was a point in the book, uh, and and to to be clear, it's super adaptability, how to transcend in an age of overwhelm, which to me is

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