Taming uncertainty

...may have a lot to do with bringing together beliefs, mastery and relevance.

Here's a visual perspective of uncertainty, to replace a thousand words:

Ultimate purpose of this concept is to help clarify which practical actions could go right and what might work. The benefit of this suggested worldview is that it may universally apply to harness the dynamics of social networks or to steer sequences of events subject to chains of causalities.

Nr 1 & 2 are good starting points, got also to conquer 3 and 4 !
Nr 5 & 6 are promissing, if able to handle the facts that matter.
Nr 7: no need to make you a drawing, right ?

Beliefs are what you think you know...they struggle with doubt, they can be assumptions.

Mastery is what you really understand...it struggles with errors, mistakes. It is a skill.

Relevance is what you should really be concerned about, what really matters. It's what you should know about and master, because it affects you: one way or another.


Taming uncertainty truly means continually tuning beliefs and skills to the relevant matters.

Aligning this universal trinity is the mark of our human condition: it is the price to pay to loosen the shackles of necessity. In other words, it is the modality of our freedom, and perhaps also of our identity.