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Lucky for us, the world isn’t nearly as scary as it was thousands of years ago
(although not quite a utopian safe-zone). Life has become much safer,
unbelievably so, in fact. Medicine and technology get better by the day;
Violent crime, although rampant in our news outlets, is in fact a rarity in the
everyday life of your average citizen in a Western country.
Sure, there are still deadly diseases and the threat of random acts of violence
or catastrophe, but the chances of you catching a mystery zombie virus or
being swept up with Dorothy and Toto to a fantastical Hollywood dreamland
are, I’m happy to say, slim.
Here’s some other startling news: chances are you’re not going to suddenly
die on the way to the grocery store, your boss isn’t actually going to kill you
if you ask for a raise and, believe it or not, asking someone out will not result
in your pants mysteriously falling to the floor, painfully exposing your
SpongeBob SquarePants underwear and bringing about your early demise via
acute terminal embarrassment with the insidious laughter of everyone in
Starbucks ringing in your ears as you depart this mortal coil.
In other words, our aversion to risk, which was once necessary, no longer is.
Those same survival instincts that once kept us alive can now be the very
thing that keeps us from actually living.
A PARADIGM OF POTENTIAL
Our obsession with certainty can be tragic and counterproductive for two
reasons.
First, uncertainty is where things happen. Uncertainty is your personal
pathway to opportunity. It’s the environment in which you grow, experience
new things and produce new, unprecedented results. Uncertainty is where
new happens.
“The desire for safety stands against every great
and noble enterprise”
- Tacitus