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Thriving in the Face of Contradiction

Hidden Brain

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Is There Something Fundamentally Wrong With That Binary Model?

Psychologist Wendy Smith studies the way we think about dilemmas. She argues that either or thinking is limited at best and detrimental at worse. The reason is because it leads us down these vicious cycles, she says. It can create an ongoing loop of negative conflict which just creates this downward cycle.

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