An oxymoron: The shared experience of isolation

The shared experience of isolation.

That is an oxymoron; but you know what, Covid 19 has created a new world: It has shrunken for many people to an environment of bricks of mortar, pristine backyards, and bulging refrigerators. However, many of us are connecting globally. Over the last three weeks I have interviewed more people, with more miles between us than ever before; folks rising and shining at 5am in the USA, 11pm in Australia – all looking pretty bright and perky!

Suddenly I have grown a pair of wings that were not there before. Without over-thinking things and trying to fit into this new world, I have applied the comedy techniques of Good Good Bad or Bad Bad Good, to flip anxiety and lack of business productivity into something exciting and innovative.

Can more of us flip this adversity – this negative - into something potentially positive; like butterflies emerging from a chrysalis? Just like the chrysalis, is not guaranteed that transformative opportunity: eaten by a bird, caught out by the last frost of late winter– brushed away while we tidy our gardens, AGAIN, the business community also has to navigate the uncertainties of these strange times. And that is where salvation comes in for me in the form of remote classes – something, which has skyrocketed out of a crisis. In short, it means that all things – even adversities are transformable.