The best ways to embrace uncertainty
We’re living in uncertain times. Here’s how you’re going to embrace the shakiness, and thrive.
by: E.B. Johnson
The world around us is an uncertain place. From chaotic weather to even more chaotic politics, it seems like you can’t get a stable foothold before everything is turned topsy-turvy again. Our society is changing at the speed of light and it can seem like all that’s left for the rest of us is to play a game of cosmic catch-up. We have to learn how to embrace the uncertainty if we ever hope to thrive.
Change is a natural part of life, but within all change lies uncertainty. To grow means to leave what we’ve known behind in the search for higher climes. It’s unfamiliar, it’s off-putting, and it can feel like stumbling through the dark. This is precisely what we must do in order to grow, though. We have to embrace the uncertainty and start to know it as a part of this process known as life.
Change is a part of every age in life.
As humans, we are generally creatures of habit which prefer to seek off-putting comfort over uncomfortable growth. We will stay in all the wrong places if it means that we don’t have to leap into the unknown, or face up to that sense of anxiety and longing that…
