It's grim. It's painful. It's jarring. But does COVID-19 necessarily mark a turn for the worse?

We need to acknowledge – to sit with, to grieve – the pain, hardship, and loss that the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted on us. Of course we do, it would be disingenuous and irresponsible not to. Yet it would be equally disingenuous and irresponsible not to see in our pandemic crisis a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take stock in what we now now we can achieve as creative, resourceful human beings.

Yes, everything has changed, is changing, and will change. Largely because we've never needed to step up so profoundly and so urgently in recent history.

Learning How to Drive...Times Five

As Dr. Teri recounts, "I had a colleague say in a Zoom conversation...'this pandemic has pushed us forward in tech to do – right now, right here – what would have taken five to ten years to do. So now we just have to, and everybody's on this super-steep learning curve.'"

Remember how overwhelmed you were when you first learned to drive? How impossible it seemed to choreograph your work on the gas pedal, the steering wheel, the rearview mirrors, and the brake!

And then, one day, it all came together. The act of driving morphed over time from a hectic, front-of-the-brain, rapid-fire sequence of "if-then" problems to an intuitive, almost autonomic operation.

Amp that process up five-fold. This pandemic has us rethinking our family relationships, learning new ways to do work, picking up new skill sets...and discovering along the way that we've been taking the wrong approach. Ignoring flaws we needn't have ignored. Overlooking opportunities that were there all along.

You've got this. We've all got this.

Which is good, because it's time for us to pivot. The ground has shifted and the rules have changed.

Let's find a new way to drive.

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