Psychology Today
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Excerpt: Living through uncertain times is difficult for even the hardiest among us. When the future is unknown and the stakes are high, we tend to abandon a sense of the future and live more in the present. And this present moment? This is a moment infused with the unrelenting stress of COVID-19 and an election that is expected to create tension for a long time to come.
Psychoanalyst Dr. Hedda Bolgar, who died a few weeks shy of her 104th birthday in 2013 and who was known for her wisdom, once told me: “I have a thing about time, which is that things take time and today isn't tomorrow and today also isn't yesterday. And so we are where we are, and let's see what happens.”
Of course, that’s a mighty challenge for those of us living in America today. However, wisdom can help us navigate our current uncertain climate.
Wisdom, which has been defined as “expertise in uncertainty,” offers us guidance from the branch known as practical wisdom—or as Aristotle named it, “phronesis.” There are seven skills that if developed, can aid in coping with today’s time warp.
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