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📙 How to Not Know out now! ✍️ Words for The Atlantic, NYT, others 🔗 howtonotknow.com
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Why you fear the unknown — and what it can teach you

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By Maya Shankar, Simone Stolzoff Verified, Whitney Pennington Rodgers
| TED Talks Art
Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Maya Shankar, Simone Stolzoff | TED Membership • May 2026 Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar and author Simone Stolzoff have each spent years studying how people navigate uncertainty (and why it often feels so difficult). In this conversation, they discuss why your discomfort with not having the answers might be holding you back — and how leaning into life’s unpredictable moments can unlock resilience, growth and new possibilities.
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Why you fear the unknown — and what it can teach you

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By Maya Shankar, Simone Stolzoff Verified
| thefuse.co.za
Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Maya Shankar, Simone Stolzoff | TED Membership • May 2026 Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar and author Simone Stolzoff have each spent years studying how people navigate uncertainty (and why it often feels so difficult). In this conversation, they discuss why your discomfort with not having the answers might be holding you back — and how leaning into life’s unpredictable moments can unlock resilience, growth and new possibilities.
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Want to be more creative? Get more comfortable with uncertainty

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By Annie Duke, Simone Stolzoff Verified
| Thinking in Bets
Simone Stolzoff is a journalist from San Francisco. His new book, How To Not Know, is out this week. I liked it so much, I wrote a blurb for it. Check it out :). I know you will enjoy this guest post from him as much as I enjoyed his whole book. John Cleese, the British comedian behind Monty Python, was once asked by a company to deliver a speech about how to be more creative in the workplace. It’s a great talk, worth watching in full, but there’s one section in particular that has stuck with me.
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