The old world taught you to climb. This one asks you to stay intact.
Power used to mean control—titles, ladders, playing the game right. But the scaffolding is cracking. Systems that felt solid are collapsing. The rules don't hold anymore. So where does power live now? Inside you.
You can feel it, can't you?
The ground shifting. The scaffolding cracking. That low-grade anxiety humming under everything, even when nothing specific is wrong.
For years, we had language for chaos. We called it VUCA—Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. It made disruption sound manageable. Like if you just stayed sharp, kept learning, networked smart, and stayed "agile," you could outpace the instability.
But we're past that now.
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We're living in what futurists call a BANI world. Brittle. Anxious. Non-linear. Incomprehensible.
Even if you've never heard that term, you know what it means. You feel it in your body.
Systems that seemed solid are collapsing under their own weight. People are overstimulated and reactive. Nothing moves in straight lines. You can do everything "right" and still get blindsided. Logic doesn't protect you. Expertise doesn't guarantee trust. The people in charge? Often as confused as everyone else—they've just gotten better at pretending.
The old rules don't hold. The ladders we were told to climb are rusting mid-climb. The people at the top are just as scared as the people at the bottom.
how power used to work
In the old world, power lived outside of you.
Formal power came from titles and roles. You knew who was in charge because it said so on the org chart.
Structural power came from institutions—schools, governments, corporations. There was a roadmap, however unfair, for how to move up.
Personal power came from charisma, expertise, and relationships. If you played it right, you could work the system and maybe win.
But that scaffolding doesn't hold anymore.
Titles don't mean much when companies reorg every six months. Institutions collapse as fast as they form. Charisma doesn't land when everyone's exhausted from being sold to.
Power used to be about control.
Now it's about coherence.
where power lives now
So where does power live when nothing makes sense anymore?
Inside you.
Not as a mindset or an affirmation. But as something you build in your body, in your nervous system, in how you move when everything else is falling apart.
It's survival intelligence. The kind you develop when the old maps stop working and no one's coming to save you.
Self-awareness is power.
When you can see your own patterns, you stop being ruled by them. That's agency. That's the difference between reacting because someone pushed your button and responding because you saw it coming and chose something else.
Emotional regulation is power.
The people who can stay grounded when everyone else is spiraling? They become anchors. You don't need to fix everything. You don't need to have all the answers. You just need to stay human in the storm.
Authenticity is power.
Not as a strategy. As a frequency.
When you show up real in an age of performance, people feel it. It cuts through the noise instantly. They trust you—not because you're polished, but because you're not pretending.
Narrative power matters too.
The ability to make meaning out of chaos without pretending to have certainty. The people who can name what's real without sugarcoating it become stabilizing forces. Not because they're right. Because they're honest.
Intuitive power is what kicks in when data stops making sense.
You start reading energy instead of metrics. You start noticing what's true even when it isn't proven yet. It's pattern recognition operating faster than thought. It's knowing before you can explain why.
Resonance is the new currency.
The energy you bring into a room matters more than your credentials. People can feel coherence now. They can smell performance a mile away. They know when you're solid and when you're faking it. And they respond accordingly.
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what this means
In this new world, you don't climb ladders.
You don't win by being right.
You move by being real.
You stop chasing attention and start attracting alignment.
You stop performing stability and start embodying truth.
And people feel the difference immediately.
You become the calm in the chaos. The grounded one in a culture that's unraveling.
You can watch it happen in real time. The people who thrive now aren't the ones with the most polished LinkedIn profiles. They're the ones who can stay intact when everything else fractures.
who's actually equipped for this
Here's the thing:
If you've been marginalized, you might actually be the most prepared for this moment.
If you've lived your whole life outside the illusion of stability, you've already built the muscles this world now demands. Adaptability. Intuition. Reading subtext. Building community. Finding ways to survive systems that were never built for you.
That's intelligence born from necessity.
It doesn't make the playing field fair. It just means you already speak the language of disruption. You've had to. You know what instability feels like in your bones.
And now the rest of the world is finally catching up.
The people who've been forced to develop these capacities aren't starting from scratch. They're watching everyone else scramble to learn what they've known all along.
the shift
So yeah. Power has changed.
In the old world, power meant control—managing, predicting, dominating, climbing.
In this one, power means coherence—staying intact while the ground keeps shifting.
The people who thrive now aren't the most polished or connected.
They're the ones who can stay human while everything else fractures.
The ones who can still feel. Still imagine. Still tell the truth in a world that keeps trying to sell you the opposite.
That's what real power looks like now.
Not control. Not certainty.
Just coherence.
And coherence, in a world built on chaos, is rebellion.