Atwater: Handling Vulnerability
Professor Peter Atwater, author of The Confidence Map: Charting a Path From Chaos to Clarity, offers tips on how to navigate vulnerability — for yourself and for others. Also available in printable version (pdf).
Awareness | Personal Well-Being |
Community Well-Being |
Communication |
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Recognize natural cycles. | Create slack where possible — undercommit. | Pay attention to your certainty and control effect on others. | Keep communication authentic, immediate, frequent, simple, tactical and concrete. |
Appreciate your own and others' stacked vulnerabilities. | Create rules, routines, processes and procedures (and stick to them). | Don't take control from those feeling powerless. | Over-include information and with whom you share it. |
Pay attention to groups and individuals feeling hyper-vulnerable. | Avoid social media. | Don't add uncertainty to those feeling uncertain. | Highlight and destigmatize available resources that help reduce feelings of vulnerability. |
Spend time in your Comfort Zone. | Eliminate sources of needless vulnerability. | Share when you are in the Stress Center. | |
Avoid zero-sum activities. | Think short-term when setting goals, measuring progress and rewarding achievement. | ||
Celebrate shared accomplishments. | Break down complex tasks. | ||
Listen outside your echo chamber. |
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