DailyJim: The courage to feel uncertain

Hello everyone, welcome to another Daily Gym. Today is the episode for, gosh, Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024. I am flying. What I want to talk about today is the courage to not know what's going on.

So I am at the airport. This is way past the time I'm supposed to record, but But I wanted to sleep a few hours.

And basically at the airport here in Germany, in Bremen, Germany.

And was trying to order some food this morning. And really struggled to the German. I said like, ein Zimt. Can you remember what it was called? It was like, Zimt. I can't remember. Remember it started with a v oh so it was like a started with a w so it was like a, or something i don't even know so i wanted that and then i wanted something else and i think the guy speaks english right so but i don't know i wanted to try german and um and then he asked, if i i think he asked if i wanted the two of them in the same bag together oops i'm at the airport you can definitely hear the background noise trying to find a quiet spot it's quite hard, but see if I can cup the microphone see if that helps but.

I'm just going to wait there you go I think, what I realized getting to the airport and also trying to navigate in German and it's just outside the comfort zone. And I think a lot of us are so afraid to go into situations where we don't know what's going on. And I was talking with somebody yesterday at that Project Make Music Not War just about how the... When we get so certain of things, often these are the people who least know what's going on. For me, when I know or when I believe who I should trust, a lot of times it's how comfortable are they with uncertainty? Because if they say this is absolutely 100% the thing, I go, no, I don't fully believe that. So I like when people qualify statements. I like when people express confidence, but also confidence in the face of uncertainty. I think that's actually confidence. I think when somebody is certain, it's not confidence. So I don't like certainty much. I like confidence more. And I think traveling in foreign places where I don't have the expectation of having certainty helps me feel more confident in life and moving around. And I wonder if that applies to other people as well. Well, you know, have you ever been in a place where you really didn't speak the language at all and you had to navigate through and dance through guessing what the other person meant. And them guessing what you meant and kind of pantomiming and maybe a little literal dance of trying to communicate what you two were trying to communicate? Have you ever been in a situation like that? I mean, many of us are in situations like that every day when we talk to each other because we'll say one word and the other person thinks they know what the word is. But I think sometimes traveling in foreign countries or in places with foreign languages, it can make it so obvious to us that we don't know what's going on. So I try to remember that even in situations where I feel so certain that maybe not, maybe there's a lot more uncertainty in it, and trying to have the courage to recognize that there's uncertainty, I guess that's what I want to say. I'm out of breath. I'm tired. So, um, I'm gonna let y'all go and I will talk to you tomorrow. All right. Bye.