Chris Duffy

How can we think about or change our perspective on that kind of uncertainty?

Okay.

And then my last hypothetical one is a personal one for you, which I imagine you have experienced many times.

On the other end, which is what if you are a person and you are meeting someone and you're not 100 percent sure how to pronounce their name?

You're not sure.

Is it Simoni?

Is it Simone?

Is it Simone?

You don't want to say it wrong.

You don't want to be rude.

How can you handle that uncertainty as a person who I know has had to think about this many times in his life?

Simona, it's been such a pleasure talking to you.

I knew I was, I will say I was certain that this would be a good conversation, but thank you for making it be a good conversation and for helping us all to embrace some uncertainty in our lives.

That is it for today's episode of How to Be a Better Human.

Thank you so much to our guest, Simone Stolzow.

His new book is called How to Not Know.

My new book is called Humor Me, and you can find out more about me and my book at chrisduffycomedy.com.

How to Be a Better Human is put together by a team that seems like they really do know.

On the Ted side, we've got the masters of nuanced complexity, Daniela Balarezo, Banban Chang, Michelle Quint, Chloe Shasha Brooks, Valentina Bohannini, Lainey Lott, Tansika Sunmenivong, Antonia Leigh, and Joseph DeBride.

Ryan Lash knew how to edit this video, and the episode was fact-checked by Mateus Salas, who is uncertain that we can say with certainty which times in history have been most uncertain.