We're All Anxious Right Now: Here's How to Navigate It

Harvard Business Review · Oct 20, 2026 · 5m

We’re All Anxious Right Now: Here’s How to Cope

30 Mar 2020

---

Acting on emotion leads to bad decisions, so you need to slow down. Here’s how. With the news around the COVID-19 pandemic developing quickly, people are making decisions — often quickly — on everything from whether to cancel meetings to how to best project their family and colleagues. In a time of crisis and uncertainty, there are several psychological factors that impact our ability to make decisions. Our brains are responding to a sense of threat, a deep feeling of uncertainty, and a lack of control and information, all of…