Re. Problem living - I’m put in mind of the serenity prayer “grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference”. I’m not religious, but it seems a good aspiration. More prosaically, a car has both a steering wheel and suspension: some obstacles we can get around, some we just have to drive through and absorb the bumps the best we can. In personal things, my shock absorbers are resilience, gratitude, faith (again, not religious) and perspective. In professional / political / social contexts, they probably relate to the fact that change is a process - bitty, iterative, frustrating and complex, but valuable enough to make it worth taking a few knocks.
Re. Problem living - I’m put in mind of the serenity prayer “grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference”. I’m not religious, but it seems a good aspiration. More prosaically, a car has both a steering wheel and suspension: some obstacles we can get around, some we just have to drive through and absorb the bumps the best we can. In personal things, my shock absorbers are resilience, gratitude, faith (again, not religious) and perspective. In professional / political / social contexts, they probably relate to the fact that change is a process - bitty, iterative, frustrating and complex, but valuable enough to make it worth taking a few knocks.