In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher, health, and medical education environments have gone from previously packed lecture halls to now empty seats. How must institutions of academic medicine and advanced learning pivot, transform, and adapt in order to ready for and survive the uncertain future? We keep hearing "new normal," but It is not that it is a new normal, but a pathway toward the future that we are seeing more clearly and visibly. We just have to adapt and change more quickly, which will require a new way of thinking in order to navigate the future.