Welcome guys and gals to the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of Man Talks. And today,

we're going to be talking about leveraging uncertainty. And this is a huge topic. You see,

so many of us are conditioned to avoid uncertainty. Our brains are developed in such a way that

anything that seems uncertain our brain wants to avoid because that is the area of danger.

You see, our brains are designed to do one thing really, really well, which is to keep us safe.

And because of that, our brain is designed in such a way to be a predictive and outcome-oriented instrument.

And what that means is that a lot of our brain is designed to be able to take in external

data, sites, sound, smells, and compare it to past situations.

And based on those past simulations, the brain will then try and create a predictive model of what's

going to happen in the future. So when you look at actually dating somebody new or you look at

ending a relationship because you know it's not working well for you and you know it's not the

relationship, or you look at leaving a job and starting your own company or starting a new career

path or going back to school

or whatever that it is, what your brain does in those moments is that it tries to predict

the unpredictable. It tries to understand uncertainty. It tries to define something that is

indefinable because it doesn't know what's going to happen.

It's never gone down that path before.

So it actually has no computational data in order to provide you with a simulation or an outcome that is plausible or that is a predictable measure.

And so because of that, you will feel an immense amount of resistance

towards moving towards, towards actually taking steps and action towards the thing that you might

want or desire or the thing that you intuitively might know is right for you. And you'll feel a ton of resistance towards moving towards that.

So an example of this is what I had decided that I wanted to leave singing.

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