When Facing An Unknown Risk, Start Documenting
In our next episode, a woman suddenly develops a medical condition she doesn’t understand, and she and her husband immediately begin collecting data: photos, video, a log in a spreadsheet. When she takes the condition to the medical establishment, they are at first baffled, but her package of data helps prove there is a real issue and eventually they identify it as a condition that has only recently been discovered and catalogued.
I think there’s a powerful lesson that we can take some control back from an unpredictable situation when we respond by collecting data. We don’t know right away what the data means or what we’ll do with it, but it moves us from feeling like a victim into investing in a future solution.
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