Most productivity gurus preach the same thing: get clear, get certain, get moving. Stanford researcher David Evans disagrees—certainty isn’t the starting point, it’s a trap.
Evans has spent years watching people freeze at crossroads: a job offer in another city, a fading relationship, a health worry that won’t let them sleep. As co‑founder of Stanford’s Life Design Lab, a career and life-planning program, he has mapped the terrain of human uncertainty long enough to reach a conclusion that cuts against everything our culture preaches: Doubt isn’t the enemy—it might be the point.
