Uncertainty Toolkit

What can an ex-gangland boss, a recovering addict and a refugee teach you about thriving in the face of uncertainty?

'The tools in this book will help a lot of people' - Dan Snow

It’s the ‘Do you have five minutes?’ message from your boss. The ‘We need to chat’ from a loved one. Those spiralling thoughts at 3 a.m. and buzz of yet another breaking news alert. The potential coming waves of AI, climate change and unstable governments.

For most of us, uncertainty is paralysing. But learning to navigate it effectively means more confidence, less anxiety and deeper connection with others.

The Uncertainty Toolkit is a pioneering, evidence-based guide to doing just that. Drawing on the world’s most extensive study into ‘uncertainty tolerance’, led with professors from University College London, it explains the science behind how we cope with the unknown. This research is combined with the radical expertise of an unlikely group of experts – former addicts, hostages, gangland bosses and prisoners – who’ve turned their experience of extreme uncertainty into major mainstream success.

The result is a detailed, practical blueprint that will help anyone turn unpredictability into personal and professional growth.

'A wonderful, extraordinary experiment' - Sue Perkins

'Read this book, and then pass it to a friend' - Emma Gannon

Sam Coniff is the author of the international bestseller and ‘modern life bible’ Be More Pirate, and the writer and co-presenter of Uncertainty Experts. He was the Co-Founder of multi-award-winning social enterprise Livity, pan-African youth empowerment program Digify, and Bafta-winning content studio, Don’t Panic. Sam has won Entrepreneur of the Year, Agency of the Year, The Queens Award and turned down an MBE in 2020.

Katherine Templar Lewis is a cognitive scientist, neuroscience consultant and science communicator. Co-presenter and lead scientist on Uncertainty Experts and Audible Originals podcast Beyond Five Senses, she often appears as an expert and contributor across media outputs, including Sky, BBC, NBC, the Today show, Radio 4, VICE and HuffPost. She is co-founder of women-led Kinda Studios and Lab, which translates neuroscience into design to drive wellbeing.

Together, Sam and Katherine created Uncertainty Experts, an interactive digital self-development experience that brings together neuroscientists from UCL with producers from Netflix. Authors of The Uncertainty Toolkit, they live in London.