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Data-Driven Hope

Patrick Riley
4 min readMar 19, 2020

This is an interesting time. You’re getting no shortage of emails coming to your inbox about how this is “unprecedented” and “difficult.” I find when I hear things like that, I usually turn inward and focus on myself. But during “unprecedented and difficult times,” that’s not what we need and definitely not what those around us need. Here’s what I’ve been doing to help reframe my thoughts and emotions over the past few days —

Understanding My Anxiety

We see charts like these that make us think the world is about to end.

Source: Johns Hopkins

Source: Macrobond Financial

One of my go-to podcasts is “RobCast.” The speaker last week shared his thoughts on what’s so hard for us concerning this time. In times like these, we’re anxious because we don’t know “how bad things will get.” For instance, if we’re preparing for a blizzard, we know that the blizzard won’t last more than a few days. We have a roadmap for how the storm will play out. With this virus, it feels like…

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Patrick Riley
Patrick Riley

Written by Patrick Riley

Helping to give startups the power to create and grow their business wherever they are as CEO of GAN: @GANconnect

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