Chris Duffy

They feel like this is really unpleasant.

I am not liking my day to day.

I'm dreading going to work on Mondays.

But I don't have a clear next step.

Should I quit?

Should I stay?

How do you deal with that kind of uncertainty?

What about in friendships?

There is, especially in the beginning of a new friendship, so much of the barrier, I feel, is the uncertainty.

Do they actually like me?

Do they want to hang out with me?

Is it weird if I meet this person in the park and then say, hey, can I get your number so we can just hang out as friends?

Or should I not do that?

So much of what stops us from actually making deeper social connections with friends is uncertainty around what is or is not

Allowed, normal, wanted, desired.

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.