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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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Our Happiness Dilemma, Part 1: The Rot Undermining Our Satisfaction

Our obsession with happiness leads us to seek out elixirs and excitement, often undermining the happiness we seek to attain. Given that we enshrine a pillar of our Constitution to the Pursuit of Happiness, it is curious that we’ve slid to number 23 in this year’s Annual World Happiness Report.

In previous years (2017, 2018), I’ve focused on structural and social issues and tensions that point to security and social cohesion gaps that might keep the U.S. out of the top 10.

Last year, I highlighted DOWNLOAD PDF