7 Principles for Disordered Times

Change is inevitable, so focus on what you can control

Brad Stulberg
Forge
Published in
4 min readJan 12, 2021

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We tend to live under the illusion that things are stable — and that when they aren’t, it’s a disruption from the norm. If the chaos of 2020 (and, so far, 2021) has thrown any truth into focus, it’s how much we crave a straight line. An orderly progression from point A to point B.

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Brad Stulberg
Forge

Bestselling author of Master of Change and The Practice of Groundedness