Uncertainty And Decision-Making | Coping With Change In A Distracted World
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Maggie Jackson sits down with us to discuss her latest book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure. Nominated for a National Book Award and added to three Best Books of 2023 lists, Uncertain helps readers understand why they should seek "not-knowing" in times of angst and flux.
How can we harness the neglected power of uncertainty? Uncertain is a book that provides a detailed roadmap for people looking to shake things up in their lives…
Maggie is a former columnist for the Boston Globe and has written for The New York Times and other publications worldwide. With a passion for asking the hard questions, she writes about crucial aspects of life such as home and attention – and now the uncertain mind.
Click play to explore:
- The importance of asking the right "human questions."
- What the research says about technology-derived cognitive damage.
- How uncertainty is related to distraction.
- The two different kinds of uncertainty and how to harness it.
You can find more on Maggie and her work here!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
| 0:02.3 | Common sense. |
| 0:03.2 | Common knowledge. |
| 0:04.1 | Or Google. |
| 0:04.8 | How about advice from a real genius? |
| 0:06.9 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license. |
| 0:11.3 | 5% go above and beyond. |
| 0:13.1 | They become very good at what they do. |
| 0:14.9 | But only 0.1% are real geniuses. |
| 0:18.2 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. |
| 0:22.2 | He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, |
| 0:27.1 | ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 0:28.7 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | The Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:42.2 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.2 | My guest is Maggie Jackson. |
| 0:45.1 | She's the author of a book called Uncertain, The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure, which |
| 0:48.8 | I'm sure is unconscionable for a lot of people. |
| 0:51.1 | But I think it'll be a very interesting twist on that topic. We also may |
| 0:55.2 | talk a little bit about distraction and being fragmented in today's world with all the distractions |
| 0:59.8 | we have. But we'll see. So welcome, Maggie. Thank you very much. Yes, thank you. |
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