I can see that. Unpredictability is the root of much anxiety. In academia, I'm the opposite. I'm thrilled by mystery and the unknown. It gives me this deep sens

I can see that. Unpredictability is the root of much anxiety. In academia, I'm the opposite. I'm thrilled by mystery and the unknown. It gives me this deep sense of profundity and gravitas bordering on religious experience. I'd love to learn more about that phenomenon. Anyway, it reminds me of that famous Newton quote: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."