Faith: The Most Rational Strategy in an Irrational World?

Key points

Don’t internalize uncertainty. The world’s chaos isn’t yours to absorb.

Faith fuels focus, resilience, and real-world performance.

Get involved. Action turns optimism into influence.

Remember when we called it a polycrisis ? That word already feels quaint. The world has since graduated to a poly -unknown . We no longer juggle multiple crises we can name and measure; we now inhabit a fog of probabilities. Wars morph without endings, economies convulse in unexpected directions, and technology—especially AI—advances faster than our ethics , our institutions, or our sleep cycles. Uncertainty has become the only certainty.

For anyone paying attention , that’s an emotional load. In conversations I have with policy analysts and friends across sectors, the undercurrent is