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Embracing Confusion: Unlocking the Wisdom in Uncertainty

Embrace uncertainty!

How many times have you heard this declaration? A Google search on the term yielded 73.3 million hits. Woah!

Embracing uncertainty seems prudent during times of volatility. But doing so requires embracing confusion, the first experience we confront when becoming open to the unknown.

In my years as a coach, teacher, guide, and consultant, I’ve found “confusion” to be the important threshold in determining how people learn and grow.

Thus, the experience of confusion deserves attention. How we relate to confusion determines how we learn, grow, and evolve—and our ability to embrace uncertainty.

The Roots of Confusion

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By |2026-06-03T14:36:02-04:00July 22nd, 2024|Blog, Wisdom|0 Comments

Developing Wisdom: Four Models for Unlearning Common Myths

Wisdom seems so elusive. I remember encountering the notion of wisdom three decades ago in a philosophy course. I felt a strong pull at my heart to seek this out, yet also a sinking dilemma: How do you make a living using wisdom?

Much of my dilemma was rooted in unexamined socialized beliefs such as knowledge is power. Thus, I focused on gaining knowledge. Since then, I’ve come to a discovery: knowledge fills the mind; wisdom frees the mind.

Recently, I’ve read several articles bemusing the useless nature of wisdom: “What good is any wisdom we learned thirty years ago in today’s DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2025-10-22T10:56:20-04:00February 21st, 2023|Blog, Wisdom|2 Comments

Art of Unlearning, Part 3: Practice Changing Our View

It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free. — J. Krishnamurti

Unlearning involves breaking down the origins of our thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, feelings, and biases.

In the first part of this three-part series, we examined four ways of seeing: the default view, with our reflexive thoughts; the small view, with concrete ideas; the large view governed DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2024-08-14T15:40:58-04:00March 24th, 2021|Blog, Learning/Coaching|0 Comments
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