Category Archives for Extreme Events

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Extreme Events: SVB and the Blindness of the Human Brain

How the blind spots in the human brain paved the way for the SVB fail, and how to prepare for the next black swan you can’t predict.“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient

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Pandemic, panic and peace. How to make the most of an unavoidable event

Pandemic, Panic and Peace

Panic…our brains were created to look for threats on the savannas of Africa. Our brains evolved before the internet when threats to our lives were very immediate and real. However, our evolution

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Pandemic panic prevention through creativity in chaos.

Pandemic Panic Prevention

Your environment is designed to put you in a state of panic. The entire world is gearing up to stimulate your fears. Newspapers, TV news, politicians, magazines, online blogs and social media all gain

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Using your creative mindset to survive this Economic and Social Earthquake

How to Survive an Economic and Cultural Earthquake

This post was updated on January 5, 2021. It was so obvious. How many times have we said that after the fact? How many times in retrospect was it obvious that all the information that we needed was right

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Extreme Events - getting your brain ready for Black Sawns

Extreme Events: Preparing the Brain for Black Swans

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust The US stock market has just seen an explosion in volatility moving from a steady climb to a waterfall. The

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