How to Thrive in Uncertainty During Uncertain Times

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In a December 1817 letter to his brothers George and Thomas, the poet John Keats set out in a single sentence his now-famous concept of Negative Capability: “that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

While Keats was writing about artistic achievement and not struggling through a global…

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Writing. Literature. Philosophy. Culture. Ph.D. U of AZ. Lifelong expat. “To be without a description of to be.”

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Bruce Gatenby

Writing. Literature. Philosophy. Culture. Ph.D. U of AZ. Lifelong expat. “To be without a description of to be.”