193. Greatest Hits Vol. 8 Dealing with Uncertainty
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Do you worry about the future? Do you stress and plan for a hundred different “worst case” scenarios in the hopes that doing so will make you more “prepared” for what’s to come? Humans evolved to fear uncertainty above all else, which kept us safe from starving to death or being eaten by a predator…but now, it’s a recipe for crippling anxiety. Tune into today’s podcast to learn how to solve your uncertainty problem so you can transform your fear into peace and acceptance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:29.6 | So today we're continuing with our series of the kind of greatest hits best of the |
| 0:35.8 | podcast and I want to tell you a kind of a new story. Well it's new because it |
| 0:41.6 | just happened but a story that relates this topic. |
| 0:44.2 | And it touches on things I've talked about before. |
| 0:45.8 | Of course, all these things come together. |
| 0:47.5 | But I think it's so perfect that we are re-re-releasing this episode about dealing with |
| 0:52.3 | uncertainty right now because uncertainty is really the thing I think that the human brain has the most trouble with. |
| 1:00.0 | It is the thing that allows us to spin out and kind of think about all the different possible things that could happen and waste so much energy, |
| 1:09.4 | worrying about things that may or may not happen. |
| 1:11.9 | Right, when we have a problem, we know how to solve it. |
| 1:14.0 | Some of us, sometimes our brains just act like turtles on their back |
| 1:17.0 | and like they don't know what to do, |
| 1:19.0 | but at least when we know what's going to happen, |
| 1:21.0 | we can plan. |
| 1:22.0 | Humans like to plan, makes us feel safe. |
| 1:24.6 | Some of us hate planning. |
| 1:26.0 | I've dated people who hate planning. |
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