Demanding certainty
Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened—and even then, it’s still debatable.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
People crave certainty.
via How People Think
Prediction is about probability and putting the odds of success in your favor. But observers mostly judge you in binary terms, right or wrong.
The idea that something can be likely and not happen, or unlikely and still happen, is one of the world’s most important tricks.
If you said something will happen and