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You’re an addict.
You’re out of control and so dependent on your drug of choice, you don’t
even realize how it’s affecting your life. You have a gnawing craving and that
craving is for prediction.
Will it rain tomorrow? How will my stock perform? Who will win the Super
Bowl? You’re constantly looking ahead, trying to figure out what’s going to
happen before it actually does.
Why?
Certainty. We seek the certain and avoid the uncertain. We want to know
what to expect, where to go, and what to wear. We want to be prepared. We
want to be safe. It’s far beyond a want though, it’s more like that addiction.
We’re sizing people up before we even know them, predicting their character
in seconds. We buy goods and brand names we’re used to even though there
are plenty of alternatives. We take supplements and vitamins to prevent an
illness we don’t yet have, date people for months, sometimes years, to make
sure of our future, to make sure that it turns out in a way that we can predict.
Give me that certainty, certainty, certainty!!
We all know the bumper stickers and internet memes that praise risk takers
and urge us to embrace uncertainty. We even know that our openness to
taking risks directly correlates with our potential for fortune and possibility,
yet many of us still stay inside our own little organized, certain world.
And there’s a reason for that. Until fairly recently, the world was a much
scarier place for the likes of you and I. Every step into the unknown was a
dance with death. Life was one big game of Russian roulette. Literally every
day, you and every other being on the face of the earth would have been an
entrée on the dinner menu for an assortment of beasts and creatures or among
the poor suckers that walked blindly into the path of Mother Nature’s dark
sense of humor.