Leadership & Change

How we think about emotions and regulation may be undergoing a big change and it seems that most of us who are not students of emotion or related fields are at risk of missing the event entirely. How do I know this? Because in talks I attend, in the press, on social media … in spaces where I would expect to gradually hear more about this, I don’t find enough of it. Not nothing, but also not enough.

We have been thinking about rest wrong. Not because the recovery part is false, but because we stopped there. Rest is also when your brain does some of its most important work, the kind that cannot happen while you are focused on anything at all.

This article explores how prediction errors, those moments when reality contradicts what we expect, shape personal and collective change. Reflecting on determinism, agency, and the limits of individualism, it argues that true transformation emerges not in isolation but through our interconnected relationships, our communities, and our willingness to reflect, update, and grow together.