I focus in this essay on the ways in which turbulence can be transformed to engagement, and contradiction can be transformed to integration.

In this essay and the next three, I introduce an even more diverse set of strategies and tactics which I believe provide a viable alternative to Serenity as a way in which to cope with pressing VUCA-Plus issues.

The division of our culture is making us more obtuse than we need be: we can repair communications to some extent: but . . . .we are not going to turn out men and women who understand as much of their world as Piero della Francesca did of his, or Pascal, or Goethe. With good fortune, however, we can educate …