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Thriving in the Face of Contradiction

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Wrecking Ball

Wendy: Sometimes binary thinking produces yet another problem in situations like this. And you call this the wrecking ball phenomenon. Can you explain what that is Wendy? Yes, so the wreckingball is when once we've gone down a path and then the whole situation changes around us and we realize that we actually do need to change. We swing all the way to the other side. What we call is we overcorrect. You get rid of the baby with the bathwater. It sort of gets rid of all of the good with the bad.

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