Simone Stolzoff

And then eventually you might allow a spider to get close to you.

The same issue with uncertainty.

One of the best things that we can do to build our uncertainty tolerance is to one, remember times where we've been in uncertain situations before and we overcome them and

And two, expose ourselves to uncertainty in smaller controlled environments.

So little micro doses of uncertainty.

It might seem innocuous, but something like trying a dish from a restaurant that you've never tried before or striking up a conversation with a stranger or taking a new route to work.

These are little exposures to uncertainty that rewires our brain to make it easier to hold uncertainty in other ways.

The problem is in our current world, we are so conformed.

We are so comfortable in these little bubbles that we've created for ourselves that we aren't used to exposing ourselves to the discomfort that actually leads to growth.

Yeah.

The main one is that they can discover things that are on the other side of what they don't know.

So if you think about any sort of breakthrough entrepreneur or scientist that really has this big discovery, an artist that produces a piece of art that is really original and groundbreaking, it all comes from someone who is willing to go to a place where they don't know what is to come, continue to persist.

The musician Brian Eno has this great line where he says, I want to make music unlike any music that I've ever heard.

And that comfort with uncertainty to be able to say, I don't know exactly how this piece is going to turn out.

Or I'm going to make this big bet and we don't know exactly how it's going to be received by the market.

Or I'm going to try and do this experimental technique that hasn't been done before.

That's what actually leads to those step changes in society and those big breakthroughs.

And it exists in our personal lives too.

On a personal scale, you have to be willing to expose yourself to a new situation if you want to be able to learn and grow.

So I think a lot of people have come to similar realizations that the safe, secure, certain paths that they thought existed in the past may not actually be as secure as you thought.