Oddly enough, though it is often said that imagination – or fiction – can never match reality.

Arts – generally speaking, such as literature, poetry, music, painting, sculpture, and so on – often anticipate real risks or thoroughly analyze them.

Why is it so?

Artists, be they writers or musicians or painters, etc., are not trained risk assessors, let alone risk managers.  However, if not all but certainly some of them have a – let me say -‘sense of risk’ that’s uncommon, and often superior even to risk’s experts. Continue reading →