Building Capacity to Handle Complexity - Part II
A playbook for the modern knowledge worker to build their muscles to handle complexity
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The ability to handle complexity is critical in our increasingly hyper-connected world.
You can move from addressing only one problem via email in one moment to being completely overwhelmed by multiple demands in your Slack channel all while handling technical glitches and burnout etc.
At this point, our lotus ponds are maxed out in capacity and polycrisis hits.
As we covered in our last post, we saw how Margaret Hamilton built capacity to handle any complexity as the Eagle landed in the Apollo 11 mission.
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NASA’s computer systems were completely maxed out and alarms were already on high alert.
Unless Hamilton had the capacity to digest complexity, a polycrisis would have emerged.
Even today, we aren’t spared.
The demands on our mental resources can grow exponentially within a moment’s notice and we can choose to either sink under overwhelm or digest the complexity.
This week, we are building a playbook to guide us on where exactly we need to focus on when we feel overwhelmed.
Picking Up From Last Time
By now, we have identified the three areas where your brain fails when we are overwhelmed by the exponential growth of demands.