It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, everybody. How we doing?

My big question when I was younger was, what should I do with my life?

And honestly, this is a question I still ask myself quite frequently. It's why I've taken so many risks and run so many experiments in my professional and also in my personal life.

Of course, if you're going to do this kind of thing,

if you're going to take risks, you have to get pretty good at handling uncertainty, which is a

whole skill set. I don't want to pretend I'm amazing at this because I'm a pretty anxious dude,

but I have not let my anxiety stop me. So today we're going to talk about all of this, how to figure

out whether you're spending your life on what you actually care about and how to manage the uncertainty that comes from making change.

We're going to talk about all of this with a guy named Jonathan Fields.

Jonathan is the author of several books, including Sparked, Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive.

He's also the host of two podcasts,

including the Good Life Project and Sparked. In this conversation, we talk about what a sparkotype is

and how to use it to help you guide your life and work decisions. We talk about embracing uncertainty

and some skills for getting better at that. We talk about meditation and attention training for uncertainty, the role of community

in navigating uncertainty.

And this is a bit of a digression, but I found it quite useful, how to make exercise

meaningful.

Just to say this is part of an occasional series we do here on the pod called Sainly Ambitious.

This is the third of three new episodes we are dropping this week. On Monday, we had the business school professor Sue Ashford

on taking risks and running experiments. On Wednesday, we had the Wall Street lawyer turned

very popular podcaster, Jordan Harbinger. And today is Jonathan Fields. And we'll get started right after this.

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