How can you learn to love uncertainty? Is it better to cultivate acceptance or strive for change? And, after 223 episodes, what is the meaning of life?

SOURCES:Jessica Alquist • , professor of psychology at Texas Tech University. Roy Baumeister • , professor of psychology at The University of Queensland. Raymond Carver • , 20th-century American short story writer and poet. Stephen Colbert • , comedian and late-night TV host. Matt Damon • , actor and film producer. Viktor Frankl • , 20th-century Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher. Steve Heine • , professor of psychology at University of British Columbia. Charles Krauthammer • , journalist. Reinhold Niebuhr • , 20th-century American theologian. Keanu Reeves • , actor. Elisabeth Sifton • , author, editor, and book publisher.

RESOURCES:Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times, • by Steve Heine (2025). • " Learning to Love Uncertainty • ," by Jessica L. Alquist and Roy F. Baumeister ( Current Directions in Psychological Science, • 2024). • " Confused or Curious? Openness/Intellect Predicts More Positive Interest-Confusion Relations • ," by Kirill Fayn, Paul J. Silvia, Egon Dejonckheere, Stijn Verdonck, and Peter Kuppens ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, • 2019). • " A Note to Readers • ," by Charles Krauthammer ( The Washington Post, • 2018). • " Interest — The Curious Emotion • ," by Paul J. Silvia ( Current Directions in Psychological Science, • 2008). The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, • by Elisabeth Sifton (2003). • " Late Fragment • ," by Raymond Carver ( A New Path to the Waterfall, • 1989). Man's Search for Meaning, • by Viktor Frankl (1946).

EXTRAS: • " What Makes an Idea Interesting? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2024). • " Should You Get Out of Your Comfort Zone? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2024). • " Do You Need Closure? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2024). • " Secret o’ Life • ," by James Taylor ( JT, • 1977).