Episode #316: Sandra Beck Certainty Is a Comfort—“Maybe” Is a Strategy: Navigating Uncertainty with Allison Carmen

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gave me, you know, battles are won and lost in the mind.

And so the battle for the how you deal with uncertainty is totally a battle in the mind.

Absolutely.

And what the maybe does, it gives you another choice other than your biggest fear.

And once you do that, once you know, you're not stuck, you're not doomed.

You don't have to buy despair.

Maybe just opens up the window a little bit, but the minute the mind has that little piece, it's going to run because we have dreams.

We have aspirations.

Nobody wants to feel horrible and negative every day.

And even if that fear still exists, it's diluted.

with other possibilities.

You know, it's so interesting.

I just created a maybe deck and you know, it's out with publishers who knows what's going to happen.

But what I've been doing lately is I actually put my every day.

I think what my biggest fear is or what I'm worried about during the day.

And I actually pull maybe statements out.

And they sit by my computer.

And even if I'm having a good day, I notice the tendency of the mind, like you're at work and there's a problem and you get negative.

And then there's a maybe statement.

Maybe that thought's not true.

Maybe everything's still okay.

Maybe I can handle this.

So every time, even I have this little negative thought, maybe it reminds me, hey, You're looking for certainty.

You're acting like doom and gloom.