A river trip. A wildfire. 45 mph winds. And, a perfectly executed evacuation plan that had been built months, maybe years, before anyone needed it.

In this episode, Dr. Stephen Ginsberg breaks down why the Mike Tyson line — "everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face" — isn't a cynical take on preparation; it's the whole point of it. He shares how a national champion ultrarunner preparing for the Hardrock 100 built physical and mental cues for the exact mile where his brain would stop working for him, and why every golfer already knows their own version of that moment: the three-putt, the missed green, the bogey that shouldn't have happened.

Dr. Ginsberg introduces resilience visualization — a five-senses tool for rehearsing your response to the bad break before it ever shows up — so that when it does, you're not scrambling ...