Daily Productive Sharing 1189 - The Liberating Uncertainty

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Where will you be in five years? Anne-Laure Le Cunff suggests that the most honest answer might be: “I don’t know yet, and that’s exactly how it should be.”

1. In reality, none of us truly know what we want, at least not as confidently as we appear to.
2. Interestingly, we acknowledge that our preferences have changed significantly in the past, yet we believe they won’t change much in the future.
3. Your taste in music, political views, and career aspirations—all of these may change in ways you can’t foresee right now.
4. My life began to transform when I stopped trying to plan a “perfect future” and instead started treating each day as an experiment.
5. The feeling of “not being sure what you want” isn’t an obstacle to overcome—it’s a beautiful state to embrace.

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五年后你会在哪？Anne-Laure Le Cunff 说最真实的回答或许是：“我还不知道，而这正是最好的状态。” --

1. 事实上，我们当中没有人真正清楚自己想要什么，至少不像我们表现出来的那样笃定。
2. 有趣的是，我们承认自己的喜好在过去发生了巨大变化，同时却相信未来不会有太大改变。
3. 你的音乐品味、政治观念、职业理想——所有这些都可能以现在的你无法预见的方式发生变化。
4. 我的人生发生转变，是从我不再试图规划一个“完美未来”，而是把每一天都当作一次实验开始的。
5. 那种“不确定自己想要什么”的感觉，并不是需要克服的障碍，而是值得欣然接受的美好状态。

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The Liberating Effect of Uncertainty

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I ended up working at Google, and now I’m a neuroscientist and author. And I still don’t really know what I want.

None of us really knows what we want, at least not with the certainty we pretend to have.

What’s fascinating is our ability to acknowledge that our preferences have changed significantly in the past, while simultaneously believing they won’t change much in the future. Researchers call this the end of history illusion.

Your favorite music, your political views, your career aspirations – all are likely to shift in ways your current self cannot fully imagine.

My life changed when I stopped trying to plan my perfect future and started treating every day as an experiment instead.

The beautiful uncertainty of not knowing what we want isn’t something to overcome – it’s something to embrace.

So the next time someone asks you where you see yourself in five years, the most honest answer might be: “I don’t know yet – and that’s exactly as it should be.”