Uncertainty sucks. It’s stressful, and this is one of the reasons why only some ‘exceptionally few’ might stand it fine.. stand it ‘like a man’, i.e.
Here’s a Wikipedia article on ‘Entropy’, and as you know, the entropy is a measure of uncertainty used in information theory. My question is, ‘do we need a thorough knowledge of these theories for managing our average, day-to-day’s lot of uncertainties?” Go figure, what my suggestion is..
I noticed how people here in the West hate uncertainty. They have a very low level of ‘uncertainty tolerance’, and usually they fight it fiercely. It is not to say that ‘all the people living here are like that’. We are speaking of an ‘averaged psyche, soul, spirit, individual’.
In our business, for example, dealing with uncertainty is quite common. Not that nowadays there’s still a lot of uncertainties that ‘routinely’ accompany ‘regular, scheduled type of flying’, to be specific. But the ’system standpoint of view’, as your ‘guard’ against ‘a doze of surprise’ the uncertainty might ‘dish out’ on you is a chief weapon, and usually it works fine.
And even here, where people are so ‘cautious’, not too many are aware of limits until created in their minds a ’system of dealing with uncertainty’ works. It’s obvious, because the whole lot of people still keep hating uncertainty.
April 3rd, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Good points. Preparedness makes you as ready as possible for an outcome. Confidence is what you start off with before you completely understand the situation!
April 8th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Bill,
Thank you for the comment. ‘Confidence’.. It’s important. ‘Less uncertainty - more confidence’, I believe. But is it true when a person is facing a sort of dilemma: ‘go with the flow’, or ‘go against the flow’, just like that?