MOVING FORWARD IN UNCERTAIN TIMES—
It makes little sense to start something about moving forward by looking back—so that’s exactly what we’re gong to do. Why?...We’ll get to that in Study Guide Topic 5.
However... if you didn’t read yesterday’s (or the last entry) it’s probably polite to provide a platform. For us to dive. From so...
If today’s level of uncertainty is testing folks, then why not employ an idea that could be useful to many—using a study guide just like in school you know?
We explored three parts of the guide in the opening section of this topic.
- We might change thinking about uncertainty by changing the. Language we use. Instead of facing, battling with, or dealing with , uncertainty maybe we can say “exploring uncertainty, or opportunities or solving mysteries and thus we might approach. Things with curiosity more so than fear?
- Next we introduced this idea that progress starts whercertainty ends. The unknown is a big playgrtound where new and exciting things are possible.
- Then we had a brief look at how/if past answers were the path to handling uncertainty or leading our exploration. Of mysteries.
So...let’s put a fine point on that and then move on to three more study guide. Points today.
Going back top Ozan Voral’s. Work seems. Fitting here... There are two examples he uses. That might enlighten folks about how using the past might not make sense, however it happens anyway.
Did you know that an an ancient Roman. Road designer/builder decided the size of many modern rocket. Engines? That’s a bit odd you say? Well it goes like this... These rocket parts were designed. So they could be transported by rail. The Size of the rail in this country matches the scope of the tram system in Europe that these tracks were based on... and you guessed it these tracks were built using the model and sometimes the actual roads first used by Ancient Rome. Talk about following the path of least resistance. I guess if it’s not broke ...
Oh and what about the Qwerty keyboard? We were told that the home row. Was designed because of the frequency of the use of the letters in the alphabet etc. Well this is. Partially tre. The keyboard pattern was designed two that the mechanical hammers on a typewriter did not jam intro each other when a typist got fast enough to create such a problem AND ... notice that all the letters needed to spell typewriter conveniently wound up on the top row? Well maybe that happened so that typewriter sales folks could use the word. In sales demonstrations without having to hunt and peck a lot?
So ... how often does the past dictate the present if we let it?
Uncertainty happens when what we are and were good at no longer might work... and this reminds me of a quote and i am not sure who said it, however it goes a little like this —
Talent is the ability to hit the targets that many others can’t hit—Genius is hitting the targets other people don’t even see.
Study Guide Topic 4 Uncertainty and the Future
I believe it was MarkTwain who remarked that most of the misery he had in life came from experiences that he never had. That is worrying about all that could go wrong created more trouble and fear than the things that actually happened. So let’s talk about this concept. We call the future. The future is our current prediction about what might happen next. Now without getting political let’s rip a headline from the news today. A lot of folks are getting feisty. About the appointment of a Supreme Court. Judge and folks on both sides of the aisle want to claim that this will shape the court for the next 40 years. This will shape the course of our country people say.... well let me ask this... how sure are you that you won’t get hit by a bus next year? Did you see the pandemic and all it’s impact coming? What are you. Having for dinner tomorrow? What impact will continued automation have on the world’s. Workingpopulation? So if we don’t know what. Cases will be brought to the court and we don’t know. What lives will be like why are we feeling the anxiety of the uncertainty that. Appointing. Someone might bring? If each of us demands freedom and responsibility, cares a little more. For each other, decides that what. We do with and for each other isn’t dictated solely by the mechanics of government—then we could bring Ozzy Osborne onto the court and we’re not. Going to be. Going off the rails on a crazy train.
Anyway back to the future... McFly... Do we worry because our current answers won’t fit. What we think the future will bring? Well it’s not possible to to know what answers will work, howeve all the answers we have used. Have brought us right to where we are “uncertain! So... in exploring the mysteries (moving into the future—step forward into the reality to see what is there...be aware of what is really around you and then pick up those sights, smells, tastes, sounds, emotions, and thoughts and create a today that makes sense for you and your loved ones. If you don’t know where you are headed you can’t buy enough maps and in fact any maps will probably do... because you can always use it to cover up the spot on your wall left behind when you took down your Duran Duran poster.
Topic 5 Uncertainty and Creativity?
Okay how many of us are currently finding or have found new ways to do our paid work? Did we have to “think outside the box?” Literally did we have to think in our makeshift home office instead of inside the cubical or. Office we sat in for 40 plus hours a week a few months aago? It seems odd that employers who couldn’t design telework or flexible scheduling in the past have been fairly able to do so now? How many employers will study. The impact or value of this new way of working and how many will just want to get back to the way things were? Anyway it seems that creativity may be a key component in engaging in adventures and solving mysteries. What if. This uncertain thing is not about finding security. In some box out there and instead it is learning how to adopt a creative direct approach to constructing days that connect with your values and your plans to contribute to the progress of a joint project or someone else’s certainty? What can you do today to pump up your curiosity muscles and your creative toolbox. Well ,,, one technique that has served some. Folks. Well in the creative process is “flipping the script” sp tp s[eak. Think about this... What would a school look like if we weren’t concerned with producing an “average population?” We created our current system to fill the needs of an industrial economy that doesn’t exist, to memorize data that we can get by asking our phone, and we have determined that fundamental education has to last 13 years for. Nearly all students even though we know that life after school is neither equal. In time or development for all former students. So what if our purpose was to develop artists in special fields who could. Communicate with other fields, but didn’t have to “do it all?” What if we didn’t shave all the corners of the square pegs to fit them into the round holes?
If our uncertainty turns to fear because we focus on the worst (or almost worst). Case scenario —-what would uncertainty feel like if we always viewed it as the chance to connect with the best case scenario? Wouldn’t we welcome uncertainty then?
Well the intent was to get through three more topics on this today...and lo and behold you have been patient enough. Already and have enough words for now... Tomorrow we will look at science and. Certainty or and religion and certainty and then there will be a mixed. Bag of summary thoughts..
However, for now let yesterday go...out was good enough to get you here and left you without some of the answers... So remember progress and seeking peace and joy and creating. The same comes not from collecting the right answers, but grows from the seeds known as the right questions. So since you will encounter mysteries. Today and in the “future” start. Asking questions and see what happens....
More in the “present” you now call the near future.
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