- Information is like food for our brain but quite often things are uncertain. - Rather than fighting it we can learn to accept uncertainty. This will help build up our distress tolerance. - Like any other muscle distress tolerance can also be trained. --- “Information is food for our brain,” said Dr. Brewer, author of the new book “Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind.” “But when there is continuous uncertainty that we can’t resolve, that leaves people feeling anxious. They can feel overwhelmed because there’s not a resolution; the brain is not able to solve the problem. That leaves them feeling frazzled, tired and exhausted.” - [Link]([https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/well/mind/anxiety-brain.html) Worrying about what you don’t know will just make anxiety and stress worse. But accepting that some answers aren’t available right now can help you build an emotional muscle called “distress tolerance.” - [Link]([https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/well/mind/anxiety-brain.html)