Binary Thinking

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  • affirmer péremptoirement sans vérifier,
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Everything is either black or white

It is much easier to think:

• that people are either with you or against you,
• that a solution to an issue is either the good one, or a bad one,
• that things are good or bad,
• that there are only solution A or B,

I think it generally works and give a good heuristic, as it takes much more energy to nuance the thinking. Yet, people tend to defend false claims when they are not aware of the fact this thinking is mostly due to their brain taking a mental shortcut.

Notes linking here

• binary thinking of believing or not believing
• comment prendre de meilleures décisions et être plus créatif
• experience vs theory fallacy
• faux dilemme
• how to make multi criteria choices?
• make the goal of the conversation explicit
• mediating assessment protocol
• mieux est l’ennemi du bien
• nuance thinking
• polarization
• rhétorique de la contemplation
• soft wars and hard wars
• toki pona
• trichotomy of control
• understanding the “is” helps finding the “ought”

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