Navigating Ambiguity by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: 2022-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

How do you feel about your whys? Do they make you proud? Are they yours, or are they really for someone else?

Pick a why that feels true. Ask yourself how else you could explore or satisfy that why. Get more specific as you go down. One of them will be your original starting goal, but there will be many others as you begin to flesh out a “cone of possibility.” Do you see alternatives to your current goal that you like more?

Look out.

Navigating ambiguity is a team sport.

You would never dive to the ocean floor alone—you need a full-on crew to get there. It’s easier to face ambiguity together, in community with others, rather than alone. Building this kind of trust means relinquishing some control and having faith that others have your back when (not if) you fail.

As Stanford Management Science and Engineering Professor Pam Hinds notes, “Cognitive diversity is essential in reaching breakthrough ideas.” People gravitate toward people like themselves because it feels easy and predictable. Opening yourself up and trusting people with different skills and views is rarely easy. Working with people unlike yourself (in terms of identity, education, income, experience, age, geography, anything) can open you to uncertainty. Nevertheless, having different perspectives makes creative problem solving better. It’s often the only way to see what we can’t see ourselves.

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