Should students keep acquiring hard skills or give priority to soft skills such
as dealing with uncertainty, performing under pressure, critical thinking, communicating and getting along with others, to name a few?
Those who base their work on forecasting, instead of prediction, are far more adept
at dealing with uncertainty and risk because these twin realities of contemporary politics are central to the very concept of forecasting; whereas prediction dogmatically attempts to overcome them.
Fast forward to the present where sophisticated computer forecasting models such as the Monte Carlo simulation have become the preferred tools
for dealing with the uncertainty surrounding retirement planning.
«Coping with active surveillance anxiety in prostate cancer: Mindful meditation helps
men deal with uncertainty surrounding their cancer.»
A new study from North Carolina State University sheds light on how some collegiate student -
athletes deal with uncertainties ranging from excelling in both school and sports to their career prospects outside of athletics, and urges university athletic programs to adopt new efforts to support student - athletes.
We are
indeed dealing with some uncertainty that impacts the U.S. property markets, but with Brexit and potential government changes in Europe, that uncertainty is global and not confined to the U.S. alone.
OPACE 5 also identifies that there is a great potential to improve communication and outreach, through social media, particularly in the areas
which deal with uncertainty in climate products, impending climate impacts, including their socio - economic implications; and communication between climate service providers and sectoral users.
Secondly, knowledge failures (research and information challenges), such as failure to address social and environmental drivers of ill health, a historical scarcity of transdisciplinary research and funding, together with an unwillingness or inability to
deal with uncertainty within decision making frameworks.
Several papers illustrate methodological advances in
dealing with uncertainties with practical applications related to major global and regional challenges such as food security, greenhouse gas emission reductions and moving towards green economy.
For example, we've all
probably dealt with the uncertainty of a first date in which we are trying to decipher whether our date is actually interested in us or if he or she is simply putting on a happy face to avoid hurting our feelings.
Her collective, ARTifACTs, is developing a series of collaborative and interactive projects with the theme, «We Almost Didn't Make It» that
deals with our uncertainties about the future from the perspective of our descendants.
«Diversification is a great tool to
deal with the uncertainty of investing, but most people overcomplicate things because of the access they have to so many strategies and products now,» said Donald Bennyhoff, a senior investment strategist with Vanguard Group.
Introverts are better
at dealing with uncertainty — «staying with the not knowing» as it's known in coaching circles — and weigh things up more carefully.
For one thing, it teaches a person how to
deal with uncertainty, which is certainly a valuable life skill.
Doing that means becoming comfortable thinking probabilistically and
dealing with uncertainty.
They have the ability to
deal with uncertainty, to take risks and tolerate ambiguity.
The Bank of Canada is quite used to
dealing with uncertainty, and we were very deliberate in choosing how to incorporate it into our projections and policy decision.
«The most compelling mechanisms [we follow] are those that
deal with uncertainty, instability, lack of candor and the things we can not see.
There is no current way of conceptualizing the idea of anything that happened «before» spacetime existed, but fabricating a magical being isn't a very intellectual way of
dealing with that uncertainty.
... And when we're in an organization and
dealing with uncertainty, it's an opportunity to realize that we get through uncertainty not with our plans and strategies, but because we have trusint relationships and we know how to work together.»
How does
he deal with the uncertainty?
While my intent was to love and protect them, it caused them to not be able to
deal with uncertainty and to feel incapable — their words, not mine.