“You try to remember that needing to change how you do things isn’t a failure,” Dr. Robins says. “Living with our own brains, it’s work we do our whole lives. And an inherent part of that is accepting that some things just aren’t going to work the same way forever. Some might. But some won’t. Some things will work for someone else but not for you and the other way around. And figuring that out, that’s part of adapting. You outgrow some things that helped you once. It doesn’t necessarily make them bad, or wrong. It just means this is where you leave them. Or this is where they become something
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