How to Deal With Unwanted Changes

In Western countries, people are blindsided by bad things that happen. We generally don't anticipate them and so we get blindsided by negative changes. In the East East Asia, particularly Japan, China, South Korea, they're actually prepared better than we are. So the first thing to do is to kind of expect it. And that's useful. That doesn't mean being paralyzed by the expectation, but it means not being blindsided when that change does occur.