Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty

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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 158.

You’ve read the advice. You’ve asked the people you trust. And you’re still looking.

Somewhere along the way, the search for information became a search for assurance. One asks the world a question. The other asks the world for a promise.

So how much do you need to know before you act? You’ll never know enough to be certain. But you can know enough to act with care. An oracle once called Socrates the wisest man alive. He spent years trying to prove it wrong. [...]