Yeah, I think there's a certain fallacy going on with respect to uncertainty. It's like studying for exams. Sometimes in school I studied for 10 hours for exa

Yeah, I think there's a certain fallacy going on with respect to uncertainty. It's like studying for exams. Sometimes in school I studied for 10 hours for exams that turned out to be trivially easy. I barely needed to study at all. I could have gotten more sleep, worked out, practiced some other skill... I would have been a much happier person if I'd spent those hours on something other than school. But then other times I studied for 10 hours for an exam, and when I saw the questions I was kicking myself for not putting in just another hour or two. The exam covered material just barely beyond what I studied, and my grade would have improved dramatically if I'd only put in a little more effort. When I put in long hours at my job--which I don't always do--I'm not doing so because I'm mistakenly believing that working is more important than relationships or relaxation; I'm working long hours because I'm unsure about the future and I want to make sure I have some minimum level of security. Sometimes I look back and those hours feel unnecessary, but other times I realize how lucky I was to have put in all that work. That said, I still think there's a lesson here. We should constantly step back and ask ourselves what we really want to be doing. Sometimes that means working less, and sometimes that means working more. Just because we worked 60 hours last week doesn't mean we need to work 60 hours this week, and by the same token we shouldn't get complacent just because things are going well and there's no immediate need for more effort. Some of my best decisions in life have been when I completely re-evaluated where I was at and decided to do something completely different. Sometimes that meant pursuing a passion, but other times it meant giving up on a passion to do something realistic.