“When we’re daunted at the outset of a change, there is some comfort in knowing that the person who will undergo the full experience will be different from the person we are in this very moment. We will become new people on the other side of change, in ways we are capable of shaping.” -Maya Shankar, book The Other Side Of Change
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” -Pliny the Elder
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” -Heraclitus
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” -Seneca
“For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, “Now, I’ve arrived!” Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.” -Alan Watts
If you find yourself consumed with negative thoughts about the future and you can’t imagine how you’d ever deal with some of those worst case scenarios, just remember, you won’t be the same person then, that you are now.
Because you embraced uncertainty and went through trials and did hard things, you’ll be a whole lot more resilient. A whole lot more capable. A whole lot more powerful.
Also, most of our worries never come true. This study shows that it’s over 90%.
P.S. – This Sahil Bloom post about “The End Of History Illusion”
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