If I’m worried about a global pandemic, racial unrest, and the future of my family’s survival, thinking about the complexity of the world can be overwhelming.No one understands everything about, well, everything.
Therefore, our brains take a shortcut to make us feel better, and we oversimplify things into general categories, resulting in binary thinking.
The problem with binary thinking is that it isn’t accurate. Gray area does exist. All the time. It may make us feel better to think in terms of this or that, us or them, him or her, but it’s not actually how the world works.
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