How To Make Confusion Your Best Friend

“I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.” (Brian Greene)

Understanding is something that needs to be created. The default position when you’re born is ignorance which means no understanding and therefore, confusion.

This is a learning process. But see, what most people do is that as soon as they get started with the learning process and start to develop some understanding, they encounter uncertainty which leads to confusion.

Ultimately, most people allow this feeling of confusion to take them off of the learning process because they’re afraid of confusion and can’t handle the emotional labor that comes with the territory.

If you want to create an amazing life then you need to get comfortable with navigating confusion. This is an emotionally laborious process and ultimately a lifelong process.

What is confusion and why does it occur?

Your mind loves certainty and order. Those two things are what the mind is after and those two things give the mind peace.

What happens for most people is that confusion arises and that is any time that the mind is uncertain about something or is trying to…