while it is essential to cultivate safety, certainty is actually something that should be actively avoided. Certainty is actually a rather rigid state in which creativity and agency cannot exist. ‘If we can become less certain, we are more likely to become receptive to other possibilities, other meanings,’ Mason writes.104 The key is to cultivate

It can be difficult to lean into uncertainty with curiosity, rather than judgment, especially when the “What if?” questions that must be asked challenge your political, religious, or philosophical orientations.