How to handle uncertainty (w/ Simone Stolzoff)

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  This is How to Be a Better Human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Today on the show, we're talking with Simone Stolzoff about how to handle uncertainty.

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  How do you make the right choice when you're not sure what the right choice is?

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  What if you're not sure there even is a right choice at all?

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  Simone talks about these questions in his new book,

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  which is called How to Not Know, The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers.

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  Here's a clip from our conversation where Simone is talking about what he means by the value of uncertainty.

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

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

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

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  In order to be in a relationship or in order to start a company or a project or to put your creative work

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  out into the world, you need to cultivate some aspect of faith, not in sort of just a woo-woo spiritual sense,

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  but faith as in placing your heart on something,

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  making a bet on something that you do n't necessarily know can be proven with evidence quite yet.

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  I think that is not only an incredibly important skill for an entrepreneur or someone

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  that 's deciding whether or not they want to stay married or someone who is about to embark on an unknown journey,

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  but for all of us in the face of this world that we currently live in.

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  We need both faith and we need to take action.

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  We 're going to talk a lot more about uncertainty and not knowing,

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