Making life changes requires overcoming the discomfort of not knowing what will happen. Facing uncertainty, we make long mental lists of things that might go wrong and use these as the reasons why we must stay on our current path. Learning to have a healthy distrust of this impulse and knowing that even if things go wrong, we might discover things

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At the base of almost everything, the resulting truth is this: we don’t know. When we disregard this unknowingness, we can easily become disinterested, uninspired, and worn out of this life. We can put great stress on things that perhaps don’t matter all that much and neglect experiences and things that do. We can feel the pressure and anxiety of

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This is why the skill of simple awareness is important, as is the ability to tolerate ambiguity. Psychologists David Gard and Lawrence Leung define ambiguity tolerance as “the ability to hold in mind complex psychosocial information without rushing to judgment or a conclusion about its meaning”. They go on to delineate that “the process of... See more