The Clever Way You Can Escape the Pain of Uncertainty
Curiosity offers a way to calm the unknown
We’ve got uncertainty all wrong.
Our fear of what we don’t know should be a gateway to curiosity.
What often happens is that we ignore uncertainty. We make decisions without any consideration of what we don’t know. And then, when it gives us an outcome we don’t want we put it all down to ‘bad luck’.
It’s a cheap excuse.
Then there are those that can’t escape uncertainty.
They don’t try and challenge what they don’t know. Instead, they plunge into a bath of anxiety. Fretting on every scenario as they ponder the unknown.
Uncertainty can be a mentally consuming place to live, but it doesn’t have to be.
The Curious Mind
Benjamin Franklin once said: “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
The darkness is our uncertainty. Either through ignorance or fixation, we end up lamenting the darkness of uncertainty. To fight the uncertainty — to light the candle, we have to be curious.
Curiosity is how we escape the pain of uncertainty.
