Tag: adaptability
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Improve your Uncertainty Tolerance
Breaking through paradigms with uncertainty! “Paradoxically, uncertainty holds potential for both pain and possibility. This potential lies in your uncertainty tolerance. Rather than just the avoidance of pain, uncertainty tolerance opens opportunities reserved for those who embrace the unknown.” From the research, Conniff knows that not only is “uncertainty the number one driver of anxiety,…
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Capacity for Adaptability
Whilst watching a documentary about reindeer herders in the Siberian Taiga, the narrator said that the nomads have a ‘high capacity for adaptability’. It might just have been a throw-away comment, but it made a lot of sense and I wondered about it afterwards. Was it true? It was more than being adaptable. What was the…
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Fixing the Vessel You’re On
In the early 1970s, thrill-seeker and adventurer Alby Mangan goes on a six year adventure with his mate John which takes them all around the world as they more-or-less follow opportunities as they arise. After working as brick layers on an Australian island, Alby and John become voluntary crew members on a Ketch sailing boat.…
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Adaption & Group Dynamics
Just a few notes from a session last week about how group dynamics affect adaptive systems (in other words, how a group can stay antifragile). So far, we only looked at antifragile bodies and antifragile brains / behaviour. What about a group? You can only look at a group or system is behaving or adapting…
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Antifragility & The Adaptive Brain
Another very interesting talk from Luca Dellanna, this time about the adaptive brain. I think I need to listen to the talk again (this is my first bash, a few days after listening), but essentially we start off by realising that minimising one risk is not necessarily enough – nor even helpful. In fact, minimising one…
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Hormesis & Antifragility
Hormesis is a biological process in which exposure to a low dose of a toxin or stressor that is damaging at higher doses induces an adaptive beneficial effect on the cell or organism. An example from exercise: Another example Cold water swimming: