21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson - #1096

The most important skill in the 21st century is the ability to live happily with uncertainty. Yeah, I I I mean, do you know what's going on? Almost never. I mean, you you millions of people like tune in to listen to you to try to figure out what's going on, and you still don't know what's going on. So it's if if you and I can't figure it out, like I think we're all pretty

It is interesting that like as access to information scales, the certainty and the confidence around that information like dissipates. I feel like everybody is, feels less moored to reality. than ever before, despite the fact that we have access to everything 24-7, which is like a very weird paradox. But I think it's, it's there's a a deep human instinct to seek out certainty, to find a certain set of beliefs and assumptions that you can kind of like hang your hat on and build your life around.

And I think it's becoming harder than it's ever been before. And I think as a result, developing kind of the cognitive flexibility to live in ambiguity is probably more important than it's ever been. What happens if you can't deal with uncertainty? Then you will over-index on one single belief, right? So you'll become radical about one idea.

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