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

What if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage.

So a surprisingly effective antidote to anxiety can be to simply realize that this demand for reassurance from the future is one that will definitely never be satisfied—no matter how much you plan or fret, or how much extra time you leave to get to the airport. You can’t know that things will turn out all right. The struggle for certainty is an int... See more