As much as we might like, and no matter how hard we try, we cannot know the future—about an election or anything else. This feels cruel, not only because life continually presents us with ambiguity, but also because our brain is a prediction machine. When new information is ambiguous, we get confused, and if the confusion cannot resolve, we suffer.
Next stop, my office, where you are sure to hear that you have to learn not only to tolerate the uncertainty of making a decision, but also to welcome it, to explore and elucidate it, so that you can carry that knowledge into the future.
Clients haven't stopped having dilemmas, but their uncertainty these days focuses on a matter about which they can decide all they want—and they will, when they vote—but they will remain uncertain about the outcome.
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