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Recently, there has been a push for incorporating VUCA into the educational system so children grow to be more prepared. VUCA is short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This seems aligned to what you suggest here about preparing in the right way.

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My Grandmother always gave us a silver dollar on our birthdays -from the time we were just little.

“Always keep a little silver,” she would tell us, “not because you know what will happen, but because you never know what will happen.”

This from a woman who had lived through WWI the Spanish flu, market crash of “29” the Great Depression/ dust bowl of the thirties, WWII, the Korean War.

She knit socks and sweaters and sent them overseas to her siblings that served this country in the military.

Her family had been in Canada since the 1700’s -they knew hardship. She had a spine of steel the intestinal fortitude of Titans, and the wisdom of the ancestors.

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Thank you, Alvaro, you just reminded me it's been too long since I backed up my computer.

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I always have a pocketful of cash. You never know when e payments will fail.

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