Episode 147: Making Decisions in Uncertainty

Today we are talking about how to make a decision when things feel uncertain. If you have been alive in the last year and a half, many things have been uncertain. This is what we call V.U.C.A, and that stands for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous now; you don't need to have all four to be in a V.U.C.A environment.

Here's the thing, we have all been living in some form of this uncertainty. We questioned whether we'd have access to a vaccine. We experienced the volatility of people's emotions during the election and after. We agonized over the complex decisions of who to see and who not to see.

We wondered if we were going back to work or staying at home? We struggled with juggling childcare. We worried about financial issues.

When information is limited, things become vague and unknown. So how do we make decisions when so much is unknown?