What the devastating coronavirus crisis can teach us about growing from adversity
When a crisis strikes, your entire focus is instinctively drawn to the immediacy of its impact on us. That reaction has been hard-wired into us humans through millions of years of evolution. Unfortunately, as is often the case, what worked well of humans on the Serengeti 250,000 years ago doesn’t work as well with a modern-day crisis.
One of the most powerful things we can do in our current situation is to place the current crisis in a broader perspective that, while not intending to trivialize it in any way, can at least blunt the sledgehammer force it might otherwise exert on our lives. This perspective that is wider and longer than the perspective that many of us hold puts it in a context that is easier for them to wrap their arms around and that will soften the emotional impact on them.
We have three options. We can love it. But, let’s be realistic, there’s nothing to love about our current situation. We can hate it. But that will simply add salt to the wound, making our experience of what is already disruptive and unsettling even more unpleasant. The problem, as I noted above, is that primitive reactions won’t help us much today. We can’t fight the “beast” because it is ethereal. And we can’t flee from it either because there is nowhere to hide . This real threat to our survival hopefully motivates us to take steps to mitigate the risks to our lives, for example, self-quarantining, washing our hands, and maintaining social distancing.
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