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The ideas behind Battle for My Brain also continue through conversation.
These interviews and discussions explore uncertainty, judgment, patient agency, leadership, risk and what experience can teach us when the future cannot be known.
Beyond the Diagnosis: Sten Oedman on Uncertainty, Resilience, and Purpose
Beyond the Balance Sheet | UBS | Michael Pasquale | October 7, 2026
What happens when the future can no longer be predicted from the past?
In this conversation with Michael Pasquale on UBS’s Beyond the Balance Sheet, Sten Oedman reflects on his experience building businesses, making consequential decisions under uncertainty, and confronting a glioblastoma diagnosis that challenged everything he thought he knew about the future.
The discussion explores the limitations of statistics and prediction, the importance of judgment, and the distinction between accepting reality and surrendering to it.
Drawing on themes from Battle for My Brain, the conversation extends beyond cancer to consider reinvention, personal agency, and finding direction when the future cannot be known.
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