Nobody knows what’s going on.

That’s the most liberating and terrifying truth of our time.

We pretend we do, of course. Meetings begin with confidence. Headlines scream with certainty. Influencers speak in absolutes. Everyone has a plan, a forecast, a framework. But scratch the surface, and all you’ll find is guesswork stitched together with jargon.

I was reading a piece about this quiet chaos. It said what most people are afraid to admit that behind the dashboards, the projections, the philosophies and the postures, most people are just trying to make it through the day. Some with more poise. Some with more panic. But none with perfect clarity.

Even in history, the wisest didn’t claim certainty. The Upanishads asked questions they never tried to fully answer. Socrates built his legacy by admitting he knew nothing. Every empire thought it would last forever. Every market thought it had cracked the code. And yet, time humbled them all.

Today, with AI building faster than we can comprehend, with geopolitics shifting like sand, with identity and meaning being constantly rewritten, the illusion of control is thinner than ever.

And yet, we still log in every morning pretending to know the way.

Here’s a quieter, more honest way to live.

Assume you’re wrong about something. Every single day.

And then, stay curious.

Build things from first principles. Ask better questions. Surround yourself with people who poke holes in your logic. Don’t seek the ones who nod. Seek the ones who raise eyebrows. That’s how you learn. That’s how you grow.

Because growth is not built on knowing. It’s built on realizing how much you still don’t.

So the next time someone asks you what’s going on, it’s okay to say I’m figuring it out.

That’s where real clarity begins.