What Are Some Strategies to Deal With Uncertainty and Change?

Anne-Marie Slaughter: I've learned how universal the psychologies we can recruit are in the face of very diverse changes. If you're a cancer patient, you might actually find the most resonance with the person on my show who is going through a divorce. She says uncertainty and change were the motivations for creating a slight change of plans; she also finds those two things extremely stressful. Slaughter: We reliably underestimate just how resilient we will be in the faceof a change. In the moment, it's hard to get your emotions to appreciate that.