Ask the Women

Send us Fan Mail “I don’t know” is, more often than not, a complete lie. A kind one. A polite one. But a lie. In this episode, Leah Pitzenberger owns up to a habit she suspects you share — reaching for “I’m not sure” when she is, in fact, completely sure — and why we do it: because certainty is a position, and a position can be wrong out loud. Then she shares the thing she heard about how the military, in actual war zones, learned to find out what was really going on: they stopped asking the ...