Resilient People (Part 5) – Noise
Noise can be disturbing. That´s why in audio engineering, electronics, physics, and many other fields, noise got defined, associated with colors, power, a noise spectrum of a noise signal which is a signal produced by a stochastic process. Different colors of noise have significantly different properties. For example, audio signals will sound differently to human ears, and as images they will have a visibly different texture. Therefore, each application typically requires noise of a specific color. This sense of ‘color’ for noise signals is somehow like the concept of timbre in music. Most recently, headsets became developed to cancel noise: The concept is to generate waves that eliminate the noise. Physics at its best.
We live in a world of noise: Sound, actions, movements of goods – they all follow somehow randomly defined movements – and chaos theory told us that the butterfly effect may have quite some effect: Just think about minute details of your life we all witnessed, you may be able to see how a small event became the catalyst for a huge change in your life. Maybe you bumped into your partner for the rest of your life at a coffee shop, spilled your coffee and started a conversation. Sometime later you dated the other person and your life changed fundamentally. What if you had chosen a different coffee shop, or been there five minutes later? You may not have met the partner for life. The idea that something small, like getting coffee, can have much larger effects, such as altering your life is called the butterfly effect.
Resilient people understand to be prepared for the unprepared. Some even may believe our life is predetermined. Whatever the truth is, we can be curious and may expect to find out about the concept once we die. Fundamentalism and resilience may not be best friends. The believe we might be able to build a software tool powerful enough to deal with every eventuality would not what resilient people might favor. They might look for tools to manage the unexpected when it occurs.
Dealing with expectations and taking different perspectives will be relevant to be more resilient and to deal with noise. Feel invited to ask for support.
