Maggie Jackson

One of the exercises is

in a program that's going to be starting up in Columbus, Ohio to teach resilience to high schoolers is just have them answer their cell phone without caller ID.

Wow.

And that seems so simple, but that's just a great example of how sometimes we build in this day and age, especially with technology, certainty seeking answers into our

a day, you know, GPS and, you know, the app for the weather.

I mean, I've become an all year round the season, you know, round the year, all season open water swimmer.

I moved to the shore during the pandemic and I can look at the app until I'm blue in the face, but I don't know what I'm gonna get when I'm down by that ocean.

It always surprises me.

And even in the half an hour that I'm swimming, there are changes.

And I now think of it as,

a daily dose of uncertainty.

You know, it's a real game changer when you can begin to see that uncertainty is something that is a

wonderful signal that you don't know, and now you can investigate.

In fact, uncertainty is actually highly related to curiosity.

And so the component of curiosity that's probably most important of the curious disposition is, again, this tolerance of the unknown.

We think of curiosity as being this childlike, wondrous, almost easy thing to be, but no, it also includes that unsettling

discomfort because you are, you know, moving beyond the edge of what you know.

Well, yes.

And of course, I'm not arguing for and no one would argue for irresolution and indecision as the goal.

It's just that when we sort of shut down on the opportunity to be uncertain, when we close our mind quickly, we're actually shutting down on opportunities to basically explore all the possibilities or at least many more possibilities than just one.