Simone Stolzhoff

And that version of you will have more context, more information, and be better equipped to handle it than you are today.

You have to trust in your future self to be able to handle your future problems.

And I love that phrase, trust in your future self to handle your future problems for that exact reason that you just mentioned, Mike, which is that our brains have this natural tendency to spiral, to catastrophize, to think about all of the worst case scenarios.

We often rush out to meet our suffering.

And Emily is so glad that she didn't prematurely grieve before she had to because her mom ended up recovering and was okay in the hospital.

But even if that weren't the case, I think that wisdom of our ability to adapt to our new situations is one of the most

important human skills that we all have.

And if we're able to heed Bill's advice to trust in our future self to be able to cultivate a sense of faith and hope, even in dark times, that is the skill that will help us handle any sort of sling or arrow the future brings us.

Yeah, and the other side of it is that uncertainty need not be the cause of inevitable pain.

I think the other side of uncertainty is possibility.

Often we frame any sort of uncertain situation as a threat

And rightfully so, you know, our bodies are predisposed to be incredibly uncomfortable and uncertainty.

But if you think about, say, a revolutionary artist or a research scientist or even a visionary entrepreneur, no one is able to create truly original work without their willingness to get to a point of uncertainty and to persist.

This idea of uncertainty tolerance, the idea that you can get to the precipice of what you know and continue to move forward, not in the absence of uncertainty, but in spite of the uncertainty that you feel.

And that is the way that you create truly original breakthrough work.

I can't be too prescriptive, but I think one commonality that I think a lot of these people might share is the ability to choose curiosity over fear.

To see an uncertain situation with that lens of what might it teach me?

How might I grow?

Who might I become on the other side of this uncertainty?

often when faced with uncertainty, we don't have a choice.