We all want certainty. We want security. We want to live a life where we can lay back and stay happily-ever-after. But turns out, certainty is a toxic, dangerous illusion. Certainty is the first of the “Three C’s” that the worrisome director in our mind uses to manipulate us. We’ll pop open the hood of our modern culture’s obsession with certainty and expose it for the fraud it is. Because if you can transcend the striving for certainty, a whole new world opens up to you. This video jumps into:
An examination into why certainty is an illusion (and a toxic one at that)
How to navigate when the rug of certainty is pulled out from underneath you
How to listen to the morbid, yet enlivening teacher of our very own mortality
Why we enter into the fruitless exercise of rationalization when things don’t go our way
9. Certainty