The Virtue of Embracing Uncertainty
In times of uncertainty and instability we should learn to be like acrobats
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In January 2019, I was writing that the old world as we knew it is more and more going away and a new one is emerging in front of us. Today, five years later and after a global pandemic, a couple of wars, and other things that happened during the last five years, saying something like that has become almost a truism. The world has already changed substantially in many ways, and who knows how the world will be in five, ten, or fifteen years from now. Things change fast and often in a weird way.
If there is some truth in the previous lines, the question we should ask is the following: what is the proper attitude we should hold in times like ours, which are often characterised by high uncertainty, confusion, and instability?