This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey, hey, how we doing, everybody?

For so many of us, when we're in a moment of doubt, our system glitches and shuts down.

We do not like it.

We don't like not knowing what to do.

It raises all sorts of questions about our competence and confidence.

We want a simple answer.

As I have said many times before on this show, it is one of the design flaws in the human operating system.

We live in a complex, fluxing universe, and yet we hate uncertainty.

But my guest today argues that those moments of doubt handled correctly are actually massive

opportunities.

Of course, the trick is handling them correctly,

and that's what my guest is going to teach us how to do. Bobby Parmar teaches at the prestigious Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He's got a new book. It's called

Radical Doubt, Turning Uncertain uncertainty into surefire success.

We talk about the common human allergy to discomfort and uncertainty, the benefits of doubt,

the difference between choice fatigue and analysis paralysis, the nine subtle signs that

you're in a state of analysis paralysis, why we need to be paying more attention to process

instead of outcome,

how to have confidence in the face of doubt, the role of rupture and repair in relationships,

the crucial final steps in any decision-making process, specifically something Bobby calls

after-action reviews, and much more.

As you may know, the Buddha had a lot to say about the benefits of maintaining an open mind,

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