The Relationship Between Play Stakes and Uncertainty

We are in many ways genetically wired to fear uncertainty, is the unknown could present a potential danger to our ancestors. And then I guess reinforced by the way that we're raised, again, in schools, we're taught that everything has a right or wrong answer. We don't know what cosmic banana peel is waiting around the corner for us so we get paralyzed. It's so much more certain to look back at the rear view mirror and say we're going to do what we did yesterday than step into a completely unknown future. This is why people stagnate. this is why businesses die. The best moments of your life were precisely because you leaned into the magic of uncertainty.

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