How comfortable are you with uncertainty?

If you need to know what I mean by "comfortable" or "uncertainty" before you vote, score yourself a "1".

who knows what will greet you when you wake up for the day. I answered option 4.

another dollar.. they have an OCD problem THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL...!!! , they are mentally ill, they need to be stopped and forced to take their medication... OR WE ARE ALL DOOMED AND THE PLANET WE STAND ON THAT SUSTAINS US

that fear manifests....

I deal with risk by not getting into debt and having emergency funds. Health risks are hopefully contained by doctor's visits, good checkups, and staying skinny. Safety risk is contained by recognizing fear and respecting it (snow boarding once was good enough).

I'd say I'm not so good with uncertainty, but that I've tried my best to control the situation so I mostly fear the scary stuff. Of course my control is probably illusory but it sure helps to get me through the day!

I have never had a problem or fear that I worried my way out of.

:thumbsup:

The RL kind, not so much. I have to work on managing that most of the time. Uncertainty about theory or ideas is fine and even, attractive in some ways.

Member of Control Freaks Anonymous here. :hi:

lol

I tend to think lack of tolerance for uncertainty is what drives people to fundamentalism (and scientism) where they can listen to some preacher (or teacher) tell them they can be certain of whatever it is he is preaching (or teaching). Then they can find comfort in their make-believe certainty.

So you find people who are absolutely certain that the rapture is coming, and people who are absolutely certain there is no God and only science has all the answers. People at both extremes are fleeing from uncertainty. The truth is, we just don't know. We don't know if there is or is not a God, we don't know if there is or is not life after death, and yet people from the two fundamentalist extremes will loudly defend their personal sense of certainty they they know for a fact that there is (or is not) a God, an afterlife, UFOs, bigfoot, or whatever controversial and uncertain subject comes up.

new routine. And I need lots of reassurance that "things" are okay.