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Squiggly Careers · 2026-09-15 · 38 min · 7,735 words

#593 No Regret Skills: How to Get Better at Adaptability

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Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is a Squiggly Careers podcast, where every week we borrow some brilliance and turn that curiosity into useful action for you and your career. And today's episode is part two of our No Regret Skills mini-series. We were honestly, the honest story here is we were going to do it as one episode and then we realised actually we got

carried away decision making and so excited about developing and teaching each other some no regret skills that it's probably worth its own episode. So in last week's episode I talked about the no regret skill of decision making and I borrowed a bit of brilliance from a poker player called Annie Duke and applied it to our career. And today it's Sarah's turn and the no regret skill that she's going to be focusing on is adaptability. So adaptability, why did I, why did I choose this as my no regret skill? Well one,

I can hear people talking about it a lot at the moment. So actually last week we did talk about, you know, that kind of trade-off between like hot skills, like what is almost like trending right now versus no regret skills that kind of go beyond that. So, you know, there's an interesting dilemma here, like is does this go beyond just of the moment? I felt like it did. And the reason for that is I was looking at the World Economic Forum work again around skills.

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