Is uncertainty really that bad?
Of course uncertainty has always been a factor that human beings have had to deal with in their lives.
You don't need to talk to too many people, before somebody states the bleeding obvious by saying something like:
"We are living in increasingly uncertain times."
Besides how often I've heard this statement being made, what really does bother me is if anyone actually knows this for a fact.
Has somebody actually checked the global uncertainty meter for proof?
If there isn't any empirical uncertainty metric that we can look at, then perhaps it's not the uncertainty that's the problem, but rather our growing intolerance of uncertainty?
Of course uncertainty has always been a factor that human beings have had to deal with in their lives. It's exactly because of this fear that people turned to religion for relief.
But as we became more secular the response has evolved into the need to develop a better sense of personal wisdom to weaken it's fright-inducing psychological properties.
These days however, when faced with future uncertainty, we turn to ChatGPT for the answer. We've outsourced our personal quest of wisdom development to a machine...that generates responses from flawed facts from the past.
I wonder what could go wrong?
You can't vanquish uncertainty by following a neat recipe, but you can certainly improve your framing and response to it. And in the process weaken its power to make you feel overwhelmed.