uncertainty is an evocative state
Letting go of certainty, planting ‘seeds’ through initiative, and how over‑planning creates misery and inaction
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So that that's part of it. And then also just like having it happen enough times where like, a lot of the best things that now are in my life like it would have been absurd for me to like okay this seed here is going to you know um yeah we were talking earlier Exactly Yeah And so I just think it just like so just like one of those, like absolute
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Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. Our obsession with certainty has another side effect. It distorts our vision through a set of funhouse mirrors called unknown knowns.
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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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