A few days ago, I made a terrible mistake.
I woke up, grabbed my phone, and started scrolling X while making my coffee.
In the span of about two minutes, my brain got hit with doomsday predictions, geopolitical tensions, horrific news, and warnings about AI destroying jobs.
Before I had even taken my first sip of coffee, I was in fight-or-flight mode.
It's easy to feel that we're living in the most uncertain time in history. But the uncertainty itself is ancient. Its grip on our lives is new.
You are plugged into a 24/7 uncertainty machine. An IV drip straight into your veins.
The truth is you can't stop the machine. So the goal isn't to avoid or eliminate uncertainty, as much as to outlast it.
In this piece, I talk about the single mantra I keep coming back to:
When in doubt, zoom out.
Everything in life benefits from perspective. The struggle feels smaller. The growth feels bigger.
Because the days are noisy, but the months, years, and decades are not.
When in doubt, zoom out.
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