Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

Tara Lowenthal.

Hello, my chickens.

How are you all?

I am getting ready to head to Denver to host Clutch College.

By the time this podcast comes out, I'll just wrap it up and cannot wait to see how many

mind-blowing breakthroughs my students are going to have and get to share with you all

how it went.

I'm also enormously excited about the tote bags we had made for our swag.

They have amazing chicken designs on them.

It's the little things.

Very hip, hip, beautiful glamorous chickens.

Anyway, that's not the episode topic today, although that would be fun.

Today we are going to talk about one of a human brain's least favorite things in the world,

and that is uncertainty, which is also the nature of life.

Literally, everything in life outside of us is uncertain and not subject to our control,

and some of what happens inside of us is uncertain and not subject to our control.

And yet we hate uncertainty with a passion, and we go through elaborate mental gymnastics

to try to avoid it, to pretend it doesn't exist, or to try to control it even though

it can never be controlled.

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