In these imperfect times it’s important to remember that “change is interesting”
Seriously.
This may sound overly simplistic, but consider the alternative. What if you could predict everything in advance? Well… you’d be the richest person in the world, but you’d be bored to tears. Life would have no meaning because it was preordained. We think we want predictability, but we are wrong. What we actually want is a world of good surprises; we want to be the richest person in the world without knowing exactly what’s going to happen, success, without predictability.
Too much unpredictability is chaos – this causes stress and fatigue, and is not sustainable. The key is to create an environment where there is the right mix of surprise, where the surprises tend, on balance, toward the positive. A low chance of getting hit by a bus or audited, and a much higher chance of running into an old friend with exciting news. This is why we wear bike helmets and (generally speaking) avoid participation in armed robbery.
The question is how can we gear all aspects of our lives toward these kinds of positive surprises? Career, family, personal, relationships with friends, the whole ball of wax. A tall order, but the alternative of settling down into stable predictability seems far worse.
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