Why Your Brain Hates Not Knowing #psychology #mindset

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]I bet it feels like everything you've done today has been in the pursuit of something like happiness. Maybe in the pursuit of productivity or freedom or I don't know, maybe your day just felt like a series of obligations and you would be forgiven for feeling that way because yeah, that is often how life feels on the outside. But what's happening on the inside is that at every turn your brain is just trying to mitigate uncertainty. And I think this is really important because everybody's brain does this. This is not about whether or not you have anxiety. And also to give you a little bit more of an appreciation for how much is going on under the hood, how much work is being done in the subconscious and how incredibly complex the brain is as an organ.