From the course: Resilience as a Path to Happiness at Work

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Thriving in uncertainty

Thriving in uncertainty

- Yeah, the best ways to thrive with uncertainties, first of all, just accepting uncertainty as a reality, as a grounded reality, which is true. It's always been the case for the millions of years that human beings have lived on this planet with any degree of awareness. We live an uncertain life. There is no guarantee of anything. The only guarantee we have is this moment, I'm alive and present. I'm sitting here now, this much I'm sure of. A minute from now, and I could keel over with pounding in my heart. And this is just a fact of life. So there is uncertainty, or the earth below me could suddenly get disrupted as a giant earthquake sweeps me up, (chuckles) or I could walk out of the door and pick up an unknown virus. All of these are like uncertain facts of life. We witness this over and over again. It's about time that we accepted this as a core fact. And the more we're willing to accept that and live and sit…

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