Watch this video of a man meeting a male polar bear. Not just a predator, but a near-perfect killer—up to 3 meters long, up to 1,000 kg.
What do you do—even if you’re a 100-kg athlete?
Run? In the animal’s eyes, you become prey. Attack? You trigger defensive aggression. Freeze? He walks up and eats you.
But before the bear decides what to do with you—he is hesitating.
The instructor says, “We do two steps toward him. If we back up, he will just come faster.” Honestly, my mind would push back against that kind of madness.
“You kinda want to keep the pressure a little bit on him. You wanna be dominant. Any kind of movement toward a bear is a dominance behaviour,” the instructor explains as he moves.
The animal and the man enter a space of uncertainty. Each is unsure what stands before him—harm or good. Different outcomes are possible, depending on how each behaves.
The man’s actions say, “I’m not afraid of you. I’m steady in myself.” The bear answers, “Strange one. Not worth it. I’ll find easier food.”
This is how any form of Chaos behaves. More precisely, it responds to the moves you make in its presence.
It’s as if the threat is wary of your unpredictability—your creative chaos.
And that makes sense. Think of those dead-end moments when you suddenly did something unexpected and surprised yourself and everyone else.
You can’t know the unknown within you. But you can build trust with it.
There is a strength that can help you—even if you don’t know where it comes from.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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