DUBAI: It can feel increasingly difficult to catch a breath these days.
With consequential headlines that update every few minutes, work that becomes increasingly unpredictable, and conversations around future plans that shift from five-year timelines to five-week ones, it is clear that increased uncertainty takes its toll on our lives, personal and professional.
But what happens when that uncertainty becomes sustained, when there is no relief from the constant strain we feel from simply not knowing? Here, research tells us that prolonged uncertainty has marked impacts on our health and well-being.
The human mind views uncertainty as a threat, as it disrupts our trusted ways of being in the world. With threat comes stress, which can directly impact our ability to process our thoughts, emotions and the ways we manage our daily tasks.
Shrav Shankar. (Supplied)
