The Uncertainty Effect: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Unexpected

by Michelle Lazarus

In an age of pandemic and economic precarity, how can we learn to embrace uncertainty in our workplaces, schools and businesses? And how can better understanding uncertainty help us to build resilience, foster social inclusion and deal with the big issues, such as climate change? Award-winning educator Michelle Lazarus shows us how uncertainty tolerance can help. Drawing on years of her team' s own research, Michelle examines how teachers can help prepare students for an uncertain workforce, how healthcare administrators can help to reduce burnout in doctors, how scientists can better model the effects of climate change and how we can all contribute to equity in our workplaces.This lively book has an affirming we may not be able to predict the future, but we can learn to navigate it.

Genres: Nonfiction

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2023

Reviews

[Niroshe Amarasekera · Rating 5 out of 5]

The uncertainty effect by A/Prof Michelle Lazarus couldn't have come at a better time. Michelle takes a deep dive in to uncertainty...a concept that we all have discomfort with...but flags the differing levels of discomfort depending on context. The first chapter is a must for any educators starting their career, but also for those looking to support students through anxiety. This book gives you ways to introduce uncertainty into the classroom in a supportive manner, taking away supports one way at a time. Michelle encourages educators to embrace their uncertainty.

This book also nails uncertainty in the clinical sphere for patients an clinicians.

There is a chapter on uncertainty and the scientist as well as life, culture and finance.

Michelle's writing is simple abd clear helping the reader through complex concepts and breaking these down.

A must read for everyone educators, students, clinicians