Utkarsh Narang argues that fear of the unknown locks us into rigid patterns and prevents growth. Repeatedly confronting uncertainty rewires your brain to find it enjoyable instead of threatening. This comfort with uncertainty is what lets you shift perspective and see new possibilities.
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I think it's also about like we're very fearful of uncertainty, right? Because we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what's going to be going next. And that uncertainty puts us in a space where we're unable to have these conversations ourselves. We are— we keep telling ourselves that tomorrow, the tomorrow, the tomorrow does not change. Because if you change, then you don't know what the path less traveled will look like. You don't know what the road less traveled will look like in the future. And so I think that's why we don't shift things easily. And I've done this multiple times, and I realize over time when I'm speaking to someone or sharing my journey with them, I feel it becomes— the wiring in the brain shifts so much that I feel if I'm not making things uncertain, then I'm not having fun, which also has its own repercussions. But I think that's the shift, right? That you become so comfortable with uncertainty that you feel you got this.