The cost of unmastered change isn't just personal stress. It's disengagement. It's decisions made from fear. It's good people burning out because they're navigating constant transitions without the tools to integrate them. It's disruption experienced as threat, when it could be experienced as advantage. Change Mastery isn't about having all the answers. It's about being grounded enough to find them.

In my book Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing to Happen to You, I describe three options available to us at moments like this: Stick, Twist or Bust. They’re not career strategies in the traditional sense. They’re ways of thinking, lenses that help you navigate uncertainty without force before you’re ready.

You’re not “getting left behind” with AI. In moments of, what can feel like, revolutionary change, there is a swell of getting busier, ‘catching up’, chasing, getting ahead. But that can also cause burnout and overwhelm before we’ve even started. So how we can approach AI development with an open curiosity, to understand what it can really do, and contribute to the world, rather than join the 100m sprint into the land of ‘Who-Knows-Where’ (which should’ve been a land in the Never Ending Story but wasn’t).

“When you get tired, learn to rest, don’t quit” Banksy