The ONE Skill Every Calm, Successful Person Has (And You Can Learn It Today)

Nov 17, 2025

Discover the transformative skill of getting comfortable with uncertainty to reduce anxiety and boost success. Learn how to calm your amygdala and escape fear loops with a resilience list. Dive into exercises like neutral/best-case scenario training and take micro-actions to combat stress. Liz emphasizes the importance of planning, low-stakes exposure, and accepting feelings instead of resisting them. Try out a daily worry window to channel your concerns productively and reclaim your energy!

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INSIGHT

Uncertainty Tolerance Is Foundational

Uncertainty tolerance is the foundational life skill that reduces stress and increases energy and success.
Becoming comfortable with uncertainty makes you more unflappable and willing to take risks.

INSIGHT

The Brain Hates The Unknown

Our brains treat not knowing as a greater threat than many actual dangers because the amygdala stays on without certainty.
That constant alertness from uncertainty is what exhausts and sustains anxiety.

ANECDOTE

Calm During The Pandemic

Liz Moody feared a pandemic for years but found she was calm once the threat became certain in March 2020.
She learned that certainty about a threat often allows the brain to move from chronic alert to manageable action.

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This is the life skill to end all life skills. Once you can do this, everything else becomes so much easier. This is something that top business people thrive at. This is something that people who do not get riled up by the news and all of the unprecedented times that we're living in have figured out.

So what’s the skill? Getting comfortable with uncertainty.

The best part is it can be learned, practiced, and there’s science behind it too. Absolutely anybody can become more comfortable with uncertainty. In this episode, I'm going to teach you how.

🎧 What you’ll learn:

Why uncertainty tolerance is the #1 way to reduce anxiety
How to calm your amygdala when it won’t shut off
The “resilience list” I use to train my brain out of fear loops
Neutral/best-case training that beats doom-spiraling
Micro-steps and exposures that lower stress quickly

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, you're going to have much more energy because you're going to be less stressed. You're going to take more risks, which is going to result in far more success in your life—you're going to be unstoppable.

👉 Homework: Block out a 10-minute daily “worry window.” Set a timer, write your biggest worry, then list one neutral and one best-case scenario. Take one micro-action to move forward.

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