Dealing with Relentless Uncertainty

By page 6 Stolzoff had accurately noticed one of the hardest things about society today, we think we can know everything. We know about a war in Ukraine, or people without food in far flung countries, or people fleeing genocide. We praise knowing more about the world and it's problems as something to aspire to, but the reality is we can do almost nothing about any of these things. Yes we can pressure politicians to do more to stop a war, or accept refugees from genocide, or send aid so people have food. But most of us can't get up today and do anything tangible to impact these problems. But we do have to deal with the stress of these events as they are in the news. One of the best decisions I made to combat this never ending news cycle daily hyping tragedy and fear, both of which get attention, was to switch much of my news consumption to magazines. I don't need to know the latest threat Donald Trump made against my country today. He'll be doing something else crazy tomorrow too,…