Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty

Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder - and how to learn to live with it

Simone Stolzoff describes himself as naturally an uncertain person" inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendency benefits him in his work as a journalist, but can otherwise be a double-edged sword.

While working for a magazine in New York, Stolzoff was approached about a job at a design firm in San Francisco. Now, he laughs at how tortured he felt having to decide between two attractive career paths".