Ep. 15. Grow Your Range: How Adaptability Strengthens Your Faith, Purpose, and Leadership

Grow Your Range: How Adaptability Strengthens Your Faith, Purpose, and Leadership

What happens when life doesn't go according to plan?
The meeting moves. The budget changes. The strategy stops working. An opportunity disappears. A door you thought God would open stays firmly closed.

Do you push harder or expand your range?

In this episode of Faith, Purpose, and Leadership, Garrett explores the Law of Requisite Variety, a principle developed by cybernetics pioneer W. Ross Ashby.

Simply put, the more complex the environment becomes, the greater the range of approaches we need to navigate it effectively.

Using everyday examples like a dimmer switch and GPS navigation, Garrett shows why adaptability isn't about abandoning what matters. It's about being willing to change what doesn't matter in order to protect what does.

In This Episode You'll discover:
Why rigid leaders often have less control over outcomes than they think.
How pressure can cause us to retreat into our default leadership style.
Three practical ways to expand your leadership range:
stay curious, grow your toolbox, and run experiments.

Why adaptable leaders question and test their methods instead of constantly defending them.
How we can mistakenly confuse the route toward our purpose with the destination.

What Joseph's unexpected journey teaches us about allowing God to "recalculate" our path.
Why faith isn't trusting God to make our plan happen, but trusting Him when His plan looks nothing like ours.
How Paul's words in Philippians 4 provide a powerful picture of spiritual range.
One of the central ideas of the episode is simple:
Adaptability isn't changing the things that matter.
It's changing what doesn't matter in order to protect what does.
Paul said he had learned to be content in "any and every situation."

He knew abundance and scarcity, freedom and hardship and none of those circumstances determined whether he would trust God. That is spiritual range.

Maybe spiritual maturity isn't creating a life where fewer things can go wrong.
Maybe it's becoming the kind of person who can remain faithful to God through a wider and wider range of circumstances.

So ask yourself: Am I really stuck or have I simply decided there's only one acceptable way forward? Know your destination. Know your values. Know who you are. Get clear about God's calling for your next step. And then...Grow your range.