Why do we seek certainty in our lives? Why do we sometimes not want certainty? This post explains how certainty is part of affect, the evaluative common currency of the mind.

Certainty, like dogma, is one of those things that people hate only when they disagree with what people are certain (or dogmatic) about. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly ...

When thinking about the title for this post, I came awfully close to saying that certainty “matters more” than accuracy, but I thought that perhaps it might sound too cynical. But that stronger ...

A close friend of mine once confessed, “If I could just understand why we’re here, I could finally relax.” It’s a colossal question—one he may never get an answer to. But the truth is, most of us are ...

In the course of a single week, there has been all of this: "I have been truthful and consistent on every level since day one," actor Jussie Smollett told the world after prosecutors dropped 16 felony ...

Getting a cancer diagnosis pulls the rug out from under your life. It's a struggle to give up expectations and learn to accept the unknown. In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is ...

Doubt and certainty are feelings on opposite poles of an axis, each having a significant role to play as you progress down your path of personal development. While certainty can make your actions more ...

This year I have been on a Tony Robbins kick (see related article, “The Aha! Moment That Brought About My Transformation“) and while many of his lessons have stuck with me, one in particular has ...