It is an onslaught of bad news: COVID-19 resurgence, social unrest, market volatility, electoral mud-slinging, contentious geopolitics and so much more.
Your social feed, mainstream media and socially distant conversations are stacked deep with enough to make most people want to stay home and cover their face, even if there weren’t physical distancing imperatives.
But it’s not all bad news, and quite simply, if you’re looking for good news, you’ll find it, and if you’re looking for bad news, you’ll find that too.
For example, a quick web search showed us that some countries are flattening the pandemic curve quite quickly, that people with disabilities are finding new opportunities because of the shifts in technology adoption, car insurers are giving cash back to customers, there are active heroes in the healthcare world, the environment is responding positively to our reduced travel and consumption and many people are reconnecting with key relationships in a way they haven’t in a long, long time.
The problem with questions like, “What’s happening with …” is that the answer will be driven by the bias of the person answering. The quality of our questions has a dramatic effect on the nature of the answers we get, and that’s why in our discovery process we ask some very different questions.
If we just make a small change to the question and say, “What good things are happening with …,” do you think the answer will be different? It definitely will.
There is good news in the world. It might be constrained, confined and tucked away, but it’s there. There are some good things happening here and there in the markets too.
You find what you’re looking for, so look for the good stuff.