Jemma Spake
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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We run through all of these scenarios because it gives us a sense that we are practicing what we would do if we were in that scenario mentally.
We're rehearsing things going wrong so that we're going to be better at handling it when they obviously do go wrong.
The problem is we're just thinking about the worst case scenario.
We're not thinking about how we would survive it.
We're not actually doing any of the coping when we're imagining the world falling apart.
You know the quote, I don't know what it is, like the thing we fear the most is fear itself.
I always thought that this is what I was talking about.
Our fear of uncertainty is the ultimate fear because it's just revealing all the ways that we are weak all at once.
you know, at our core, we hate uncertainty.
Humans hate uncertainty, whether it's an exam result, whether it's waiting for a text back, wanting to know if you ever find love, if you ever find your place, wanting to know if what's going to happen in the world, the blank space ahead of us, we don't like it because ambiguity is where anxiety can be most imaginative and creative because it's where there are the least constraints because there's
There's nothing we can predict.
Studies have provided so much evidence from this.
I feel like you guys just know this from feeling it.
But to give you some of the research, there was a 2011 study, for example, that tested 78 participants on their fear of uncertainty.
And these participants were divided into three groups.
Basically, the experimenters, the researchers said, we're going to show you some pictures.
For one group, they said, we're going to show you some pictures of something neutral, like vegetables, whatever.
The second group, they said, we're going to show you pictures of something that's really, really terrifying.
We're going to show you pictures of violence, of snakes, of terrible things.
In the third category, they didn't tell them what the picture would be.
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