Simone Stolzoff

I think it's a book that is really meeting its moment.

Uncertainty is all around us.

Our tolerance for uncertainty is in decline.

And I wrote the book to be a guide to help you, the listener, get better at managing and maybe even appreciating some of the uncertainty that we're faced with in our work, in our lives, and in the world.

Yeah, I am the beneficiary of good timing.

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We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm a journalist and an author.

I wasn't always this profession, though I had sort of a meandering career in college.

I studied poetry and economics.

And so maybe you can already see the tension between the pursuit of art and the pursuit of commerce.

But I like to think of my beat as taking big swings at big questions.

And so my first book, The Good Enough Job, was about how work has come to be so central to our identities.

And in the release and afterwards, I kept hearing questions from listeners and readers about how they should think about their career in the face of all the uncertainty in the world and their careers and their lives.

And so my second book, How to Not Know, is sort of a response to that.

It's an attempt to help you get better at dealing with uncertainty.

And God knows we all need that right now.

It's a little bit of both.

There's been some really good research that has come out.