How the 'Stockdale Paradox' Can Help You Embrace Uncertainty. Believing in a better future—while still acknowledging the darkness of our present reality—seems almost impossible right now.

The Stockdale Paradox explains why that might be. It turns out that there are really two kinds of hope. There’s the candy-coated type that encourages people to escape into sugary fantasies ...

How the Stockdale Paradox Is Relevant Today. It is easy to fall victim to “the dread” these days. The dread of another day in an endless string of days in quarantine, ...

Then comes the paradox: While Stockdale had remarkable faith in the unknowable, he noted that it was always the most optimistic of his prisonmates who failed to make it out of there alive.

The Stockdale Paradox can be summed up as “have faith but confront reality.” A corollary here is to embrace some form of stoicism. Groysberg talks about Marsha Linehan, ...

Some suggest “cholent” comes from the French chaud ("hot") and lent ("slow"). The opposite of cholent is “nonchalant,” which means cold and disinterested.

Conventional wisdom in the space of personal development and achievement, has long contended that a positive mindset is a precondition for success. From Napoleon Hill’s ‘Think and Grow Rich’ to the ...

The Stockdale Paradox and survival psychology contain wisdom for how leaders can manage the coronavirus crisis, according to Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams. [This is the fourth installment in a ...