Facing uncertainty, we make long mental lists of things that might go wrong and use these as the reasons why we must stay on our current path. Learning to have a healthy distrust of this impulse and knowing that even if things go wrong, we might discover things worth finding can help us open ourselves up to the potential for wonderful things to happen. Only when you reach this state are you at the same point as Rubin was, with no questions left about taking the next step. And don’t worry, even if you do screw up a little, your “ought to” self is standing by, ready to help make things right.
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