While it is helpful to play to your strengths, sometimes it is important to shore up your weakness. Do you know what your weaknesses are?
Share why if you wish.
Month: May 2023
How Do You Deal With Uncertainty?
Being in an uncertain situation can be extremely frustrating. Is there a way you have learned to deal with uncertainty?
Human beings, generally, feel more in control — and therefore, more comfortable — the more they know about something. In fact, that urge has been behind much of the development of science and technology over the last few hundred years. Wanting to know more, about how the world works and ways to modify it, is something that comes naturally to our species.
While this is true at a societal level, it is also true at an individual level as well. The more information we have, the more in control we feel.
For example, someone who has been diagnosed with a disease will often learn everything they can about it. Even very complicated systems, like the stock market or the political realm, people will study in great detail, trying to gain an edge.
In reality, knowing more does not always confer an advantage. So-called experts do not have a better record predicting the future than anyone else. There are plenty of examples of a basketball novice finishing ahead of a diehard fan in March Madness brackets, for instance.
There are certain times and certain situations that are completely out of your control. In that case, what do you do? Can you learn to embrace the uncertainty? Or instead, are there methods to feel more in control of an inherently uncontrollable scenario?
Related questions: What is unknowable? Why are we fascinated with the unknown? How do we know what we don’t know? Why don’t you know what makes you happy?
Too Busy Or Not Busy Enough?
Being too busy and not busy enough can each be bad in different ways. Is one better — or not as bad — as the other?
Share why if you wish.
Too Busy Or Not Busy Enough?
How Do You Get Away?
When life becomes too stressful, and you need to get away — literally or figuratively — how do you do it? What do you do?
Share why if you wish.
How Do You Remember Someone Who Has Died?
Death, and dealing with it, is a part of life. When someone you know and like dies, how do you remember them?
The death of a friend or loved one can be traumatic, particularly if that death is unexpected. During the grieving process, there are two primary ways to remember someone.
The first is to remember, or memorialize, soon after the death. Stories might be shared, tears might be shed, and grieving is done communally. In your experience, what are ways that you have publicly celebrated someone’s life?
The second method takes place months and even years after the passing. Remembering what someone was like, after years have gone by, can be difficult. There may be pictures or video to help jog your memory, but even those can be incomplete. And for some people in your life, you may not have any photos or other media saved.
In any case, what can you do to keep that person in your mind? How can you continue to be inspired by them, or be amused, or even just maintain a presence in your life? Is it important?
Related questions: Why are people afraid of death? Does your memory define you? What makes a friendship? Does it matter how long we are remembered?