Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm

in Tonya Dodge. Today I want to talk about certainty. Yeah, and personality types.

Right. Well, there's actually two different elements to this. The first element is the ingrained

human need for certainty that everybody has, regardless of their personality type. And then

there's the way that uncertainty impacts us as individuals and the kinds of things we're

uncertain about based on our personality type. But the reason why I want to talk about this is,

I think this is actually a, it's a big node in a lot of systems around why people feel a sense of

anxiety, why they may lack a sense of purpose, why they may struggle to take the actions that

they should be taking and why they sometimes take actions they shouldn't be taking.

And I think a lot of this, even though obviously anytime you're talking about something so,

you know, big, wide open territory such as the actions we take and whether or not we should take

them, I obviously there's a lot of nodes in all these systems. But I've really, I've recently

really gotten on this concept of certainty because I'm starting to understand how the fear around

uncertainty, how much our ingrained need to feel certain ends up creating forms of addiction

that are really unhealthy for us as individuals. And so as I'm tracing sort of, you know,

when I'm working on a problem, unfortunately, it becomes a hammer in all the worlds of nail.

And it's until I understand that thing and it's as close to what feels like a complete way

as possible. And then I move on to the next node. And I think that's a little bit of how,

you know, the introverted thinking mind works, especially when it's paired with extroverted

intuition, you first zoom out and look at the landscape of what's available. And then you find

something interesting and you zoom in on that. And then that's that becomes the only thing. And

right now this idea of certainty and uncertainty has become my like zoom in and I'm looking at that

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