It is quite funny how we got used to charts, statistics, and discussions about different perspectives.
But, despite all our computers, technologies, and so on… we keep getting the usual white/black alternatives, or “dichotomies”.
This short articles is about something that I kept doing often to convert complexity into something we are all used to: getting a 0 to 10, or 0 to 5, or F to A.
The concept is simple: our brain is inherently multi-dimensional.
We are able to see, perceive, think in shades- and to switch from visual to verbal if and when needed.
But when we move from what is personal to what is abstract (our work, in most cases, or news), we seemingly accept at face value boundaries that do not exist- false dichotomies.
If you are lost- do not worry: the rest of this article will make sense: including the “Devil’s advocate” section (i.e. how to prepare for objections).