Sublime

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

Third, we are fearful creatures and go to great lengths to preserve a sense of certainty, even when we know it to be false.

Douglas Hubbard’s book,