After a crisis, most people aim to get back to the state they were in before the crisis.
But there’s a problem with that.
Where you were before the crisis was what led to the crisis.
Unless you want to repeat the past, the goal in any crisis must be to transcend to a new level.
Check out this article where the Dutch school the US on this exact issue in the prevention of flooding.
As humans we have an insatiable desire to explain untoward events so we can get on with solutions.
If a turkey were to assess the state of the world in early December, they would be forgiven for thinking all is well and that the farmer loves them.
When I was skiing professionally, I knew that standing on the edge of a cliff for longer didn’t make it any safer to drop.
On Monday I attended the funeral of a good friend of mine from medical school, Andy Greer. He died suddenly while working a shift at Christchurch Hospital. He was 40.