Why the Need for Certainty Is Holding You Back | Simone Stolzoff

In order to build this uncertainty tolerance, we have to tell ourselves a different story, which is that uncertainty does not necessarily mean danger. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do as well. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. Simone Stolzov was finishing a book on the value of uncertainty when he and his wife learned they were expecting. At a checkup around three months, the doctor couldn't find a heartbeat and asked them to come back a week later. So they waited. He'd just been writing about how the waiting is often the hardest part.

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