Simone Stolzoff

And so I think we don't need a boardroom to necessarily do this in your own life.

If you're overwhelmed by the process of, you know, writing a novel or applying to jobs or whatever, if you're able to just focus on that next right action with the great writer Anne Lamott called going bird by bird, that will allow you to actually build some momentum and take this sort of amorphous uncertainty that you might be feeling and make it a little bit more applied.

Give yourself some control back over the universe.

I love that.

So you have your anchors on one side and you have your reminder to focus on the next right action on the other side.

I think the idea with focusing on the next right action is particularly true with these big sort of uncertainties in our life, these existential uncertainties.

And just quickly to round out the sort of ambient uncertainty category, the last thing that I'll say is to choose curiosity over fear.

So often when we think about uncertainty, we see it as this threat.

We see it as that rustling in the bushes.

And we think that it's necessarily going to be something bad.

But one thing that I like to think about is that uncertainty is also the birthplace of possibility.

So no groundbreaking piece of art or inspiring company or scientific breakthrough.

has come without someone's willingness to get to a place of uncertainty and to persist.

I like to think of the metaphor of someone on a lake that's shrouded in heavy fog.

You might not be able to see very far in front of you or know exactly where you'll end up, but if you keep rowing, then you'll eventually reach land.

And so those are the three I'd say.

Find your anchors, focus on the next right action, and then choose curiosity over fear.

Yeah.

So we're talking broadly about how do you build tolerance for uncertainty?

How does uncertainty go from this thing that is incredibly uncomfortable to something that you can collaborate, that you can manage in your day-to-day basis?