I just stepped out of a freezing plunge, and the shock is a good reminder: cold isn’t simple. Neither is almost anything else that matters. My view is blunt: either-or thinking is wrecking our ...

A lot of binary, dichotomous, either-or arguments have been playing out in K-12 education over the past few years. For example, early in the pandemic, debates occurred about whether students should ...

We are going to show you two techniques for changing HOW you think about issues. How You Think: Binary thinking dominates as a conversation mode. Binary thinking is the tendency to view the world as ...

Why is academia persistently described as a space that one can either remain in or else leave, totally and forever? Why are people either in academia or out of it? First of all, we imagine the academy ...

Binary thinking -- either/or thinking -- is the opposite of quantified, dimensional thinking and it is especially dangerous in medicine and mental health. It is the thinking of division. It falls ...