Section Three
Do
Notice that the tools we are sharing to inspire and inform action in the face of uncertainty keep asking you to reconsider the way things are. Philosopher John O’Donohue lyrically argued: “Possibilities are always more interesting than facts. We shouldn’t frown on facts, but our world is congested with them…. They are possibilities that have already been actualized. But for every fact that becomes a fact, there are seven, eight, maybe five hundred possibilities hanging around in the background that didn’t make it to the place where they could be elected and realized as the actual fact.”1 When we meet uncertainty from this expanded sense of possibility, doing becomes an imaginative, generative, discovery-driven action.
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