Think back through your life: at the age of 16 you were not the same person as you had been when you were six. Nor were you the same at 16 as you later became (or will become) at 36, 46, or 56. Throughout our lives, in different ways, we…

In a churning world, no one knows what will happen next. A fire or flood might devastate a town. An unknown virus might close down the world economy for two years. A small country might resist one of the world’s strongest armies. …

In a world where so much is changing so fast, we need new ways to make sense of what is happening. Our conscious, rational minds will tend to seek out facts and figures. But as the start of the Covid-19 outbreak showed, those facts might not always be available, they…

When I was nineteen years old I took my youngest brother out on a nearby boating lake. He was only six years old and as I rowed us both across the shallow water he became quite nervous. I stopped and explained that because this was the first time he’d ever…

We are living through a time of unprecedented global change — in technology, politics, society, the economy, and of course in the environment. Ten years ago most of these changes were barely on our radars. Now they are the new normal. We can’t predict exactly what is going to happen…

Every significant change in our lives is accompanied by a psychological and emotional transition. Some of these are small, others large. But when nearly everything in our world is changing, all at once, it becomes more important than ever to understand and manage these inner transitions. Arnold van Gennep discovered…

If you want to create something new, your first task is to inspire yourself and other people to long to make it happen. Because, as the pilot and poet Antoine de Saint Exupéry put it: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and…

Winston Churchill famously said: “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” This time of massive change is bringing us many ‘barking dogs’ to deal with. …

The word ‘destiny’ means different things to different people. So as part of our journey towards becoming antifragile it is important to be clear about the meaning we are using here. Like the word ‘destination’, the word ‘destiny’ looks to the future: to the place that we are heading…