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To Embrace Uncertainty (#27)

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What's the Difference Between Certainty and Uncertainty?

Jonathan Heights: In Daniel Kahneman's language, it's systems one and two of our thinking. What they mean by that is basically there is an unconscious part of us that does very quick, very automatic, almost reflexive thinking. He says the energy that system two requires is greater in terms of just brain processing and also just time. Height: Even when we want to embrace uncertainty, our brains are kind of conspiring against us because it's quicker, easier, cheaper to go the certainty route.

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