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How to Stay Calm in Uncertain Times
The power is in your reaction and response
We’re always faced with uncertainty in life, but we’re never truly consciously aware of it.
A few weeks ago, before the global health pandemic was announced, our futures were as unknown as they are today:
You didn’t know if you’ll be at the same job in a year’s time, you didn’t know if your newly launched business would survive the next six months, and, as upsetting as it may sound, you had no indication of whether or not you would be alive to ring in the New Year.
But when the ocean is smooth and the sun shining in the blue sky, we do not pay any attention to such uncertainty. Instead, we somehow find comfort in it.
Everything changes when we’re slapped with a giant wave of change — especially when it shows up in the form of a vicious storm — in this case, a global pandemic. And what do we do when it hits?
We panic.
And we do so because our brains are wired to throw worries at us in such extreme unknowns.
But what matters isn’t in how we react in the moment of the news, but what we do after.
