# Professor Amy Webb explains how people can overcome the "paradox of the present” by becoming more comfortable with uncertainty

1 Faculty News June 7, 2020 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/69755f6c-0d74-4be8-a429-1cacf5189935) -- "Are things at work, in fact, eventually going to go back to something like they were before coronavirus? Humans overestimate the long-term impact of the things we are living through; what futurist and NYU Stern Business School professor [Amy Webb](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb) calls 'the paradox of the present'. She suggests we learn to overcome it by becoming more comfortable with uncertainty."

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