Can waiting for good news feel harder than receiving bad news?
People can survive bad news more easily than endless uncertainty.
Bad news ends a story.\n\nWaiting keeps writing new versions of it.\n\nThe hidden mechanism is uncertainty cost.\n\nHumans constantly simulate the future.\n\nGood outcomes.\n\nBad outcomes.\n\nEverything in between.\n\nThe mind spends energy preparing for realities that may never happen.\n\nCertainty hurts sometimes.\n\nUncertainty quietly hurts every day.
