embracing change, as we experience a constant avalanche of…

Page 69 embracing change, as we experience a constant avalanche of change, our ability to deal with uncertainty and shifting ground becomes ever more critical. Rock slides, fickle weather, unexpected, floods, and eruptions All challenge even the most skilled climber. In order to succeed, you must effectively deal with an embrace change

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Adversity Quotient, Turning Obstacles into Opportunities by Paul G. Stoltz

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Change and uncertainty are permanent features of the flight, and emotional resilience — the steadiness to adapt and keep your composure — is what carries you through them. Embracing change rather than bracing against it is the very thing that opens the door to transformation. Distrust your own instruments. In a shaking world the observer is every bit as unreliable as the thing observed, so when you must judge in the fog, cross-check yourself — averaging several independent readings is all but guaranteed to cut the noise roughly in half. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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