148: 2024 Year End Reflection Points

Overview

At this time of the year, many of us are taking time to reflect, consider what we’ve learned, and determine what to take with us into the new year. 

In this episode, I share two major themes that I’ve been coming back to throughout 2024. As I worked more deeply with these topics over the course of the year, I embraced opportunities for new learning and insights, uncovered resources that were new to me, and was challenged to rethink common narratives.

I offer my reflections on embracing uncertainty and complexity and how both can benefit us on our journeys of Sustainable Ambition. I also share questions for you to consider as you look back on 2024 and where embracing uncertainty and complexity might take you in 2025.

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Listen to the full episode to hear:

• Why seeking absolute clarity may be doing ourselves a disservice

• How uncertainty can actually helps us

• Why we should embrace complexity 

• The significance of paradoxes and why it’s important to embrace them

• The antidotes for the fear of uncertainty and complexity

Resources Mentioned

• 125. Strategies for Navigating Ambiguity and Finding Clarity in Life and Work

• The Certainty of Uncertainty - Peter Coy, The New York Times

• Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, Frank H. Knight

• Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure, Maggie Jackson

• Comfortable with the fuzziness, Seth Godin

• It's Always Something, Gilda Radner

• Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through Other Patterns, Nora Bateson

• Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Rebecca Solnit

• Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

• Elise Loehnen - Balancing Empathy, Anger, and Responsibility in Polarizing Times - Point of Relation Podcast

• Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy, On Being with Krista Tippett

• The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

• Dacher Keltner

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