# How to deal with unknown unknowns You can prepare yourself against known unknowns, but how to deal with unknown unknowns? - Relax because you can't control them - Prepare in order to uncover the knowable unknown unknowns: do some research - Ask google for answers vs ask people for perspectives - More perspectives will help you expose unknown unknowns See also: - [[Working under uncertainty]] - [[There are known knowns and there are known unknowns and there are also unknown unknowns; Things that we don't know that we don't know]] - [[Tips to avoid overthinking]] - [[Dichotomy of control]]