When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

John Muir
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable

Julian Baggini

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity

Shekhar Kapur

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope

Henri Frederic Amiel

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty

Stephen Covey

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

Peter L. Berger

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers

Erich Fromm

Learning to navigate the unpredictable terrain of life is an essential skill to develop. We can’t live a happy life if we are unwilling to pave the path that will lead to our personal fulfilment and destiny. Learning to sit comfortably in the seat of uncertainty is challenging but equally rewarding, because discovery is what waits just underneath the surface of that uncertainty and that gives us the chance to become fearless explorers, of our own lives

Jaeda DeWalt

Humans are Nature, too

Sonja Blignaut

living with uncertainty

What does it mean to be human in uncertainty? This question has always intrigued us, even before we found ourselves in a global pandemic. If we are honest, uncertainty makes us deeply uncomfortable and so we live in ways that wish it away or deny its existence.

Diego Espinosa says we have outsourced our relationship with uncertainty to certainty merchants. Our world and lives are poorer for allowing certainty merchants to define how we ‘be’ human as certainty demands conformity, acquiescence and only one right answer to any question. 

So what draws an engineer/musician, anthropologist, ex Cirque du Soleil clown psychologist, agilist, ecologist and meteorologist together? We are drawn to working in the in-between, nebulous spaces and learning how to navigate uncertainty as a way of tackling life and its challenges. We believe that for humans to thrive, individually and collectively, we need to cast off into the seas of uncertainty and abandon the shores of easy answers and solutions. 

Uncertainty can be scary, but it can also be exhilarating. Without uncertainty, there would be no adventures, no spark of creation, no innovation nor progress.

Join us as fellow pilgrims on this journey. Learn how to befriend uncertainty and let this friendship reshape us, our perspectives and our role in this world.

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