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The Certainty Trap

Recognizing the Hidden Ways We Try to Feel Safe by Predicting the Future

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Jul 16, 2026
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If the free article resonated with you, there’s a good chance you recognized something familiar:

The exhausting effort of trying to feel safe by figuring everything out.

Most of us don’t experience uncertainty as uncertainty.

We experience it as a problem to solve.

A question appears and almost immediately the mind gets to work.

What if this doesn’t work out?

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