When I was in grad school I interviewed people on their most important memories. Almost everyone named a time that included stepping into uncertainty. I like the idea of quelling nervousness with a hand-on-heart reminder that uncertainty is the door to aliveness. 🚪 @nicolajanehobbs #lifehacks #calmness
When I was in grad school I interviewed people on their most important memories. Almost everyone named a time that included stepping into uncertainty. I like the idea of quelling nervousness with a hand-on-heart reminder that uncertainty is the door to aliveness. 🚪 @nicolajanehobbs #lifehacks #calmness
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Embracing uncertainty gives you room to live and breathe.
“An ability to tolerate the anxiety generated by ambiguity is what allows us to respect, engage, and grow from our repeated, daily encounters with the essential mysteries of life. But the payoff goes even further. Certainty begets stagnation, but ambiguity pulls us deeper into life. Unchallenged conviction begets rigidity, which begets regression;
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Embracing Uncertainty.8 Not knowing what’s coming next – which is the situation you’re always in, with regard to the future – presents an ideal opportunity for choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.
Embrace uncertainty, groundlessness, and fear as the place where you’ll really learn and grow. Go into that place, rather than shrinking from it. It’ll help you overcome procrastination, social anxiety, fear of launching your own business or pursuing your dreams, fear of failure and ridicule, and more. Those fears will still be there, but you’ll fi
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