Dealing with Uncertainty

When you view a situation as a challenge, you’re combining recognition of the problem that needs to be addressed with faith that you can rise to the occasion and deal with it successfully. Doing this can mobilise one’s positive self-regard and sense of potency.

The space between stories is an invitation to sit with mystery and the uncertainty it holds.

Different as it sounds, this kind of triumphalism had something in common with paralysed heartbreak. One rested in arrogant assurance, while the other rested in despair. Both saw the future as something offstage, rather than as the thing we were always creating in every moment, whether we acknowledged it or not. And both forgot that essential truth

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the cost of being completely perfect in the face of unknown is too high

"The leaf falling from the tree reaches the soil. The pebble thrown in the lake will reach the bottom. Equally certain in probability, as is the notion it's time to explore." - Unknown