Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McHydus.

Hello and welcome to episode 911 with Maggie Jackson.

If you've got some uncertainty, some difficult decisions, some anxiety associated with that,

and it's causing difficulties, Maggie Jackson has some powerful reframes to help make uncertainty your friend.

So you'll learn one, how uncertainty enhances learning, two, how to manage the fear of uncertainty,

and three, how routines can actually hold us back.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to addums that we've referenced, please drop them by

awesome at your job.com slash EP 911.

Now here's a bit about Maggie.

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist.

Her new book Uncertain the Wisdom and Wonder of being unsure explores why we should paradoxically seek not knowing in times of flux.

The book's been nominated for a National Book Award and is a next big idea club must read.

Jackson's prior book Distracted sparked a global conversation on the steep cost of affrimenting our attention and won the 2020 Dorothy Leaw Award.

A former Boston Globe columnist, Jackson has written it for the New York Times and other publications worldwide,

her work has been covered extensively in the global press.

So big thanks to Maggie for sharing her wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsor BetterHelp.

And now a word from our sponsor BetterHelp.

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