Swim Jump Fly and the resources to navigate change

In 1789 the American statesman Benjamin Franklin wrote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”, except he’d left out another certainty… change. Change is a great leveller which moulds our existence, whatever we do, wherever we live, whoever we are… so we need to be ready to deal with it.

How we equip ourselves to do this was the question I investigated during 2019–2020 when I interviewed 108 people from 27 countries. From Australia to Saudi Arabia and USA to Brazil, participants shared stories of how they…