The world we live in is changing rapidly in many areas at the same time. The impact from the technological development and introduction of different kind of Artificial Intelligence solutions in almost every aspect of our daily lives seem to have even a higher pace.
The impact on each and every one of us is different and in most cases hard to predict. What is clear is that we all handle this differently and some of us have a hard time to coop with the uncertainty. We are all different and we handle different kinds of impact very different. In one case we get nervous and in another one we find just challenging and interesting.
Rapid development creates uncertainty when we cannot foresee how it will have impact on us as individuals, family, at work or in society. Uncertainty that is allowed to have impact to us during a longer period of time will eventually create internal stress that can be harmful for us.
Can we fight the uncertainty in some ways is a valid question? The answer is actually Yes we can. Do we train to handle uncertainty in school, at home or at work? Not really, but there is training occurring in different areas, activities and workplaces all over the world, but not for all.
To meet uncertainty and to develop your resilience to coop with the uncertainty you need to gain knowledge and have the possibility to discuss and train together with other individuals. It would be an easy answer to say that it is up to each and every one of us to fix that. But it is hard to grasp a large and sometimes, or always I might say, large topic seasoned with a great amount of uncertainty connected to it.
The perfect place to start to gain tools to handle uncertainty is at school. You have the possibility to examine things happening in society together with others. Finding out facts, known benefits and disadvantages with development in different areas. Discussing impacts on you as individual, group and/or society. Unfolding uncertainty into different possible outcomes. Some topics will keep to have uncertainty connected to them, but you have gained knowledge about different kind of possible outcomes. It is not something strange anymore, uncertain but not strange.
We know that our kids are bombarded with influence from social media, group pressure, fashion and cosmetics companies almost with no interruption. This creates even more uncertainty of how to behave and how to look and dress. And if we mean, genuinely, that our children is the most precious we have we should act to help them to get tools to handle both uncertainty and develop and train resilience. Put pressure on the school system and the politicians responsible. This is something that can be incorporated in the existing curriculum at all levels.
This can also be part of discussions within different workplaces or any association handling interaction between individuals.
Resilience - Being able to come out of an event that has affected you strengthened is the ultimate goal of resilience.
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