Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted — and more anxious than ever.

Artists live with uncertainty constantly — but instead of waiting for the future, they run towards making it. What can we learn from them, about facing into a future that grows more uncertain daily? At a time when organizations of all kinds crave innovation but complain their people lack creativity and initiative, the arts have never been so essential to our future.

Margaret Heffernan is one of the UK’s most important philosophers, acclaimed TED talk speaker, entrepreneur, CEO and author. Her brilliant new book, Embracing Uncertainty: how writers, musicians and artists thrive in an uncertain world reveals how the power of the arts helps us imagine, innovate and flourish through harnessing uncertainty.

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