Remixing with a @breehgreenberg idea:
Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
Remixing with a @breehgreenberg idea: Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
As uncertainty and precarity become the new normal, so governmental regimes have shifted their focus from how to secure us to how to make us resilient. Security, and the longing for it, have become a kind of pathology. We are no longer to expect or seek certainty but rather to embrace and accept challenge and danger, a state of perpetual emergency…
Vincent Deary • How We Break
We humans are uncomfortable with ambiguity, especially when everything feels so out of control already.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
while it is essential to cultivate safety, certainty is actually something that should be actively avoided. Certainty is actually a rather rigid state in which creativity and agency cannot exist. ‘If we can become less certain, we are more likely to become receptive to other possibilities, other meanings,’ Mason writes.104 The key is to cultivate s
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
We’re waking up to the reality that uncertainty is not a war to be fought or a disease to be eradicated but an inherent quality of a complex world. We need to cultivate our collective capacity to sit with uncertainty and complexity.
Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
No matter what your creative endeavor is, uncertainty will be lingering around every corner. There is simply no way around uncertainty and the angst it will cause for you and your team. Strive to continually process it rather than let it cripple you, to accept the burden without surrendering your attention.