Summary: Robert Wilder discusses the challenges and blessings of a life lived in “not knowing.” What does such an attitude entail? How might it lead to a richer life? Robert tells the story of being raised to know things and feeling secure in having always known what to do during most of his life. He knew how to navigate through college, how to promote himself to advertising jobs, how to be a teacher at a preparatory school. Now, facing a transitional time in his career as a teacher, Robert tells of his fear in facing the unknown. Yet, he also talks about the richness of leading such a life. Robert quotes Buddhist teacher Frank Ostaseski, “When we don’t know, anything is possible because we are not limited by old habits of thinking or other’s points of view. We see the bigger picture.”<br>
