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Fwd: The Imperfectionist: Three Ideas for Turbulent Times
Why does change, uncertainty, and disruption cause some people to break and others to break records? This is a question I’ve been drawn to for most of my life—a question that has become more important than ever before. We’re living through one of the most disruptive periods in human history. We’re witnessing rapid change that’s impacting virtually
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9. Welcoming the unpredictable. For curious minds, the fact that the world keeps on changing is a feature, not a bug. They believe that their response determines how much disruptions affect them, and they choose to respond with curiosity.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Curiosity Matrix: 9 Habits of Curious Minds
matter what specific scenario transpires.” (How comforting to know there’s a host of “next right things” to do regardless of how badly or not so badly it all turns out!) Possibly more instructive than all this strategizing and scenario-planning, however, was the way they began to think about the freedom we can exercise in the 21st century: The cano
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‘Let go of certainty,' says author and journalist Tony Schwartz. ‘The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.'
Uncertainty has so much to teach us. We experience it not just in big life transitions, but in lesser moments of ambiguity, such as the “messy middle” of a project, when we’d like to throw in the towel. When we find ourselves in these precarious moments, our automatic response is too often fear or anxiety. And so we rush toward a defined outcome to
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
In his magisterial Lean Logic: A Dictionary of the Future and How to Survive It, British