Thinking axis
Reframe
Enable and strengthen a perspective shift, motivating you to look creatively for all the possibilities and to believe in an upside that you can't see yet.
9 Reframe tools
Start here when the situation feels closed and you can't see a way through it.
Framing
When you reframe uncertainty as possibility, your ability to navigate it increases because your experience shifts from the fear of loss to the anticipation of gain.
Reverse Insurance
An instinctual fear of uncertainty sometimes leads us to forget that we also need uncertainty. Humans need surprise, spontaneity, and change — and those things are inherently uncertain.
Frontiers
Frontiers can feel daunting, but they are where we do our best work. There are myriad accessible frontiers awaiting us that could transform our daily lives.
Adjacent Possible
Adjacent possibles are the infinite ways in which the future can be reinvented, hovering at the edge of our awareness, waiting to be discovered.
Infinite Game
Infinite players learn to question the boundaries, the rules, and the game itself, reinventing both the games they are playing and themselves.
Stories
We live by stories, but you need to think about what kind of story you are writing each day and what you would like to be able to pull off the shelf at the end of this year — or at the end of your life.
Regret Minimization
How do you make decisions when you don't know the outcome? Simple frameworks used by innovators help you to make wise choices.
Aplomb
Self-doubt accompanies the unknown. What we don't realize is how many people, including our heroes and geniuses, share it. There is a better way.
Uncertainty Manifesto
A personal uncertainty manifesto, or aspirational beliefs in the face of uncertainty, can provide resilience when the going gets rough.
The mere fact that the framework exists made me look at uncertainty as manageable. Deeply powerful realization.