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break us. It can make us rich or make us poor. It can be the key to our success
or drive us in the other direction.
For many people, it ends up being both.
CHASING WHAT DOESN’T EXIST
The funny thing is, no matter how much you chase certainty, you’ll never
really be able to hold it or retain it. That’s because it doesn’t exist. The
universe will always send us little reminders of its chaos and power, and no
one is exempt from the prompting.
Nothing is certain. You could go to sleep tonight and never wake up. You
could get in your car and never make it to work. Certainty is a complete
illusion. Voodoo.
Some of you might find this terrible to think about, but it’s true. No matter
how hard we may try, we can never predict exactly what life will bring. Our
plans will falter at some point eventually.
By running from uncertainty in search of certainty, we’re actually rejecting
the one thing in life that is guaranteed in favor of something that’s nothing
more than a fantasy.
“All I know,” Socrates once said, “is that I know nothing.” Many wise
people understand this. In fact, they owe their wisdom to that very realization
– that they don’t actually know a damn thing.
Because when we think we know everything, we inadvertently turn ourselves
away from the unknown and, by default, whole new realms of success. The
person who accepts how unpredictable and uncertain life is has no choice but
to embrace it.
They’re not afraid of the uncertain; It’s just a part of life. They don’t seek out
certainty because they know it doesn’t really exist. They are also the kind of
people who are aware of and open to the real magic and miracles of life and
what can be accomplished.
One of the pillars of philosophy is the examination of how we know what we