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How Uncertainty Generates Creativity

Two curious children looking into a cardboard box with expressions of wonder, uncertainty and surprise, symbolizing the excitement and creativity that arise from the unknown.

I was speaking with a client the other day about a big change in his life. He has entered a period of great uncertainty. A more precise way of saying this might be that he’s aware of a great deal of uncertainty in his life. Whether or not we notice it, life is always uncertain. This is a truth most of us shy away from. We equate certainty with security, and most of us would probably rather believe the factors in our lives that matter to us have certainty built into them.