Shock After Shock: So Much Loss

A brutal lesson: Don't use references to literature in tarot readings. When I alluded to "The Great Gatsby" with a woman in her 30s, there was a glaze-over. 

Lost to me was a communications tool I had invested so much in learning about. Back in the days when there was blind faith in higher education I matriculated for a Ph.D. in literature and linguistics. Essentially, that has become an overall liability.

Of course, I have plenty of company in this pain of losing what had defined so much of us. 

Those erudite management consultants no longer have a market for theory. Prospects demand concrete solutions they can implement quickly. Hold the bulked-up slide decks. 

Also, less and less marketable is old tech. That is, pre generative AI. Scroll through professional anonymous network Blind and it's a journey through the corridor of employment insecurity.

Federal civil service is no longer respected.

And, once progressive law firms such as Paul Weiss are going through an ideological existential crisis.

How do I help clients through this? 

Part of the transition is to, as Henry Cloud recommends in "Necessary Endings," conduct a memorial. Human beings need ritual for transitions.

Mine took the form of inviting over a few other literature Ph.Ds and celebrating what we had gotten out of that, at the time. 

No, we didn't beat ourselves up for investing so much in those studies. The peril of regret is manifested in the Five of Cups Tarot card, sometimes called the card of spilled milk. 

The second piece is experimenting to come up with replacements. 

For example, I now use other tools in tarot readings. One is the Ice Cream Fix. That goes back to our childhood. We bump our head. We want to hold on to the trauma and drama. The wise parent deters that with a-let's-get-ice cream. We let go and gleefully move on. Clients respond to that and feel relief at having a way to shift out of negative thought processes.

The third is to be pro-active. What can you anticipate that will change radically? Letting go of that before others do usually will give you a professional edge.

Meanwhile, there's plenty of suffering as we leap into the new order of things. Don't underestimate what you're going through.

Thriving in difficult times starts from the inside.

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