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Mark Epstein: The Importance of Uncertainty

Hurry Slowly

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The Importance of Uncertainty

I think it's so easy to extrapolate from this moment as if we know what's going to happen in a week or a month or three months or six months or a year. So often within the privacy of our inner worlds, we take the difficult thing and make it worse. Our own subliminal hate speech coats our experience and gives an added layer of meaning to the things that are already difficult enough. I don't think I'm counseling anybody about how to deal with the uncertainty. I think I'm just acknowledging the uncertainty that we're all feeling.

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