Embracing Uncertainty
eBook - ePub

Embracing Uncertainty

How writers, musicians and artists thrive in an unpredictable world

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Embracing Uncertainty

How writers, musicians and artists thrive in an unpredictable world

About this book

Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. Doubling down on the certainties promised by technology and micro-management only makes things worse, leaving no opportunity for innovation, adaptation or invention.

Artists live with uncertainty constantly—but instead of waiting for the future, they run towards making it, with agency and freedom. What can we learn from them, about facing into a future that grows more uncertain daily?

At a time when organizations of all kinds crave innovation but complain their people lack creativity and initiative, the arts have never been so essential to our future. We may not all be artists, but we can learn to think like them.

Margaret Heffernan makes a compelling argument for the vital integration of art into all aspects of our lives and for artists to guide us with their stamina, freedom and endurance.

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Information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781447372684
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Start of Text
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Prologue: the cost of certainty
  10. Paraorchestra
  11. 1 Deep hanging out
  12. 2 Into the forest
  13. 3 Call and response
  14. 4 Prepared minds
  15. 5 Kill all the poets: art and politics
  16. Epilogue: the benefits of uncertainty
  17. Endnotes
  18. Index