Simone Stolzoff

Especially in this world that we live in right now.

In the book, I tell a story about a couple who's wrestling with whether they want to get divorced or not.

And their couples therapist was Esther Perel, the sort of famed couples therapist.

And Esther said something that's really stuck with me, which is that trust is an active engagement with the unknown.

In order to be in a relationship or in order to start a company or a project or to put your creative work out into the world, you need to cultivate some aspect of faith, not in sort of just a woo-woo spiritual sense, but faith as in placing your heart on something, making a bet on something that you don't necessarily know can be proven with evidence quite yet.

I think that is not only an incredibly important skill for an entrepreneur or someone that's deciding whether or not they want to stay married or someone who is about to embark on an unknown journey, but for all of us in the face of this world that we currently live in.

We need both faith and we need to take action.

Hello, my name is Simone Stolzoff.

I am a journalist and an author.

And I have two books.

The first is called The Good Enough Job.

And my most recent is called How to Not Know.

Well, the cliche among authors is that you write the book that you need to read.

And so I would characterize myself as a naturally doubting person.

I am prone to be in fits of rumination.

I'm a very good devil's advocate for my own decisions.

And the book itself actually began from a moment of indecision in my own life.

I was working as a journalist and writing for The Atlantic and some other publications.

And I got a job offer from a completely different industry, a design firm called IDEO.

And so on one hand, it's like, woe is me, the agony of having to decide between two attractive job offers.