Irina Khakamada: "The era of uncertainty can be reversed in your favor"

“We live in conditions of absolute uncertainty, starting with everyday life.

You can buy a ticket to any country, and then, literally in a day, it turns out that it was closed due to the coronavirus.

You can buy a bunch of suits in order to go to work, and you are sent on remote control for a year and you walk in a tracksuit and scratch your head and think, what for did I spend so much money.

Your weather forecast says that everything is fine and you can go out of town, and then suddenly - once, and that's it, it got wet, you got wet and the trip died.

In general, the climate has become warmer and therefore unpredictable.

The economy is turbulent due to the internet and the coronavirus, and has become completely unpredictable.

The policy of all states, even those that were more or less stable, has become completely unpredictable and uncertain.

And even your psychological state is like this: either you will get sick, or you will not get sick; whether to get vaccinated - and this will help or not help; either go to a party, but suddenly you get infected, or not walk, or lock yourself at home and keep your head down and keep your health, or - but everything went nafig! - We are walking, Vasya, I want to be a man, I'm tired of it all!

Complete uncertainty.

This means that we are not standing on solid ground. We used to stand, but now we are not.

We have just a shallow earthquake, we are shaken all the time, shaken, and so on.

And I had an idea, purely "chilosophical".

Probably, in order to be successful, happy and, in particular, not to get sick, you need to understand one thing: the only way to live in a time of uncertainty is to make it certain.

What does it mean to make certain uncertainty? This is the classic rule of Tao: if you want to learn to speak, you must be able to be silent; if you want to learn to be silent, and not speak, you must speak in such a way that you get tired of it.

Here the same thing: you want to learn to live in uncertainty, turning uncertainty into certainty, that is, into a fact of life.

I have to say to myself that there will be no more certainty, and there is no need to wait for the end of this year, and then the next, and then count the dates and think that then everything will be more or less certain, or in 2024 or in 2025, or tomorrow, or in a week. There will be nothing definite in this world. And in your personal life too.

And this is certainty.

If we take this for certainty, then this means that we need to look for rules that allow us to live in uncertainty with certainty.

Because only rules help to be certain even in uncertainty.

And the rule is very simple: in order to become certain in uncertainty, one must organically merge with uncertainty. And also become uncertain.

And then certainty will come.

Don't plan anything. Even for a week.

And even when you plan to go somewhere, you must understand everything and not take cheap tickets without exchange. You should include this ambiguity and make the rule certain: buy tickets that you can return, even if you overpay a little in economy class, but you understand that at any time the country may close.

…If you want to live happily and stable today, you must accept uncertainty as an absolutely stable system. And to become exactly the same, uncertain, insuring yourself, for all occasions, and trying to live in the moment and thinking only about the moment.

And you turn future certainty into cabbage, into all sorts of details with the purchase of tickets and so on, with the insurance that all this can be changed at any time".

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