Conversations Beyond Science and Religion The Philosophy of Maybe
b"Worrying about the future seems to be part of human nature.\\xa0 We want certainty about what is going to happen -- to our investments, our children's education, careers, the human race -- but get only doubts.\\xa0 And then doubts become fears, as we prepare for the worst, and hold out a little hope for something better.\\xa0 Philip Comella's guest this week, Allison Carmen, has written a new book,The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times, that poses a simple and effective solution to a world of uncertainty: life does not follow a linear narrative that we can predict, but rather is filled with a vast array of possibilities that arise one after the other.\\xa0 In this field of possibilities lies a hope that what happens could be good, or the situation can get better.\\xa0 Maybe that's all we need.\\xa0 Listen in for a straight-ahead conversation about how this simple approach really works."