One of our biggest challenges is striking the right balance between living a great life today and planning for tomorrow. Remember old-fashioned teeter-totters? The kind made from a wobbly wooden board ...

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 ...

Andreas Angelidakis' 2006 work "Philosophy Pattern Table and Chairs" is on display at the "Nearly Natural" exhibition, which runs through Dec. 12 at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. Contributor Thomas S.

The fight over immigration and ICE has provoked some serious examples of binary thinking, says Paul Prather. Stephen Maturen Getty Images Supposedly it was the literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald who ...

Public schools have been plagued by the same divisive issues that have divided the country for the last several years. Binary or either-or thinking makes it difficult for people to listen to or work ...

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 ...

Thomas Frieden, M.D. is former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In discussing the current COVID crisis (2020), he concludes: “Most people who get COVID-19 do well. 80 ...

One of the most difficult adjustments I had to make during my corporate career was abandoning a black-and-white mindset. Typically, I am a matter-of-fact individual who is methodical and logical in ...

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