Certainty Anchors: Finding Calm in a Stormy World

脆弱的走廊:在暴风雨的世界中找到平静

Good Life Project

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2017-03-16

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Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re living in uncertain times. And, that can have a pretty life-stifling effect on us. It can impact everything from state-of-mind to our physical health and even our creative and mental abilities. Question is, if you can’t change the immediate circumstance at work or in life, is there something […]The post Certainty Anchors: Finding Calm in a Stormy World appeared first on Good LifeProject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • So I don't know if you've noticed, but we live in a bit of uncertain times, and that may be the understatement of the decade right now, and a lot of people are struggling.

  • And I've explored, I've researched, I've studied, I've written about uncertainty, constant shifts, living in the unknown for a lot of years because it fascinates me and has always fascinated me, especially in the context of large scale creative ventures or careers or entrepreneurial ventures.

  • What I learned is that there are a lot of things that help in those spaces that also help in life.

  • In fact, I wrote a book called uncertainty that came out in 2011 that's getting a fair bit of new attention these days just because of what's happening around us.

  • And I was reflecting on that, and there was one thing that I wrote about, I call them certainty anchors, that I thought it might make sense to kind of revisit and share with you.

  • So I'm actually going to share this short excerpt from the book with you.

  • So from the dawn of religion, nearly every faith has been built around not just scripture, not just community, but ritual.