In the middle of a Pandemic remind yourself ‘This Too Shall Pass’. Normal life is a constant state of change we don’t observe day to day. We often don’t realize how much has changed until we look back at the last decade. We humans tend to look at only recent events when predicting our future.
Observing how quickly the changes medical and research professionals have made. Priorities switched and testing of existing and new medicines are moving ahead at all speed. Antibodies from survivors are being used to develop treatments. Even more amazing is regulators creating new regulation to approve new treatments and potential vaccines faster and safely.
Look at how quickly businesses and education switched to remote learning. Zoom, Skype and competitors usage have boomed. The internet has handled increased traffic well due to past investments. Managers who never thought of remote work are now impressed how well people have been able to team.
Growth in technologies, space, and defense are advancing faster than ever. SpaceX launching astronauts to the International Space Station today, and the eventually the Moon. Long term people will take less risks working by partnering with robotics.
The future will be here faster, improve life and creating more wealth than expected.
“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.” - Theodore Roethke
There is no way to understate how difficult life is for the unemployed and those who earnings have been cut. Roughly one of four people have been laid off or furloughed as business stopped for SARS Covid-19. Parents are trying to work and school kids at home. Mental illness often struggles in isolation. Change brings pain with growth.
Change is not stress free. Developing technologies and learning to use them productively will be difficult at times. Man as always grown and flourished through time.
What ways will your life be better?
“We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point—that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us, and with just as much apparent reason… On what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?’’ - T. B. Macaulay, writing in 1830 in reply to the pessimists of his day
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