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421: How to deal with uncertainty | Bestselling authors Nathan & Susannah Furr

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Nathan & Susannah Furr: “Confidence means that you follow the true essence of who you are.”  Bestselling authors Nathan and Susannah Furr join mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to embrace uncertainty the best you can, plus: - Why too much certainty can be unhealthy (~11:52) - How to overcome self-doubt (~25:11) - How grow your sense of confidence (~26:23) - How to avoid "premature certainty" (~35:47) - How to chase your dreams, even when it's scary (~43:37) Referenced in the episode: - Nathan & Susannah's book, The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown. - Check out the World Uncertainty Index. - Hans Vaihinger's The Philosophy of 'As If' - "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver. Take 25% off vitamin D3 potency+ with code D3POD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

0:07.1

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0:22.4

Hey everyone, today we have husband and wife Nathan Furr and Susanna Harman Furr,

0:29.2

who are the best-selling authors of a book titled The Upside of Uncertainty. A guide to finding

0:37.4

possibility in the unknown. And wow, talk about timeliness. We need a book like this. There's more

0:45.2

uncertainty in the world, more than ever. And you actually have to talk about a world uncertainty

0:49.4

index, which we're going to get into. And so, I'm going to start from the beginning. Your husband

0:54.5

and wife, you know, your researcher, your researcher and entrepreneur vastly different fields.

1:00.1

Why the fascination with uncertainty, which ultimately leads to this book?

1:04.5

Yeah, I mean, it really started well over a decade ago. A lot of what I do is I interview

1:10.3

innovators to understand, like, how do you get ideas and how do you test ideas. But one thing that

1:16.7

struck me in that process was to do anything new, to do one of these cool new things. They always

1:22.1

had to go through uncertainty first. And I struggle with it. And so, I was really curious about what

1:28.7

could I learn from them that would help me. Because obviously, I want to get to new possibilities

1:35.2

and new things. But how? Whereas Susanna, I think, was, I'll let her speak for herself. But she,

1:41.4

one thing that the things I admire about her, she is, she is, somebody who is willing to walk

1:46.8

through uncertainty has a lot of wisdom. She's the innovator and the entrepreneur between us. So,

1:50.8

I'm kind of like the nerd who's scared of it, who studies it. And she's kind of like the intuitively

1:55.7

wise, but also experienced person who does it well. Yeah. And I would just add that the reason why we

2:01.1

decided to write it together is because in our lives, we've navigated by our own choice,

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