RE: what is a healthy way to deal with uncertainty?
April 18, 2013 at 8:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2013 at 8:47 pm by Tonus.)
I'm too gosh-darned irrepressible to stay in a funk for very long. If I was disappointed by something I'd probably mope and torture myself with recriminations for a short time and then move on. I think that there is a bit of the fox and grapes involved in that. If I'd lost out on a car I really had my heart set on, I'd kick myself for not acting sooner or being prepared, then I'd shrug my shoulders and tell myself that I'd get the next one or that missing out on a car isn't the end of the world, and so on. Even if any of it was true, it's mostly a way to move on and not let disappointment drag me down. I tend not to dwell on the bad. I believe that there's an opportunity around every corner.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
