Every day, we are bombarded with sensory input which, if we were "awake" to all of it, would render us incapacitated in a corner somewhere. Our brains do us a big favor by quickly sorting all our experiences into neat categories so we can efficiently navigate the information-pandemonium that is human existence. And the crazy part is that we're not even aware our nifty brains are doing this at all! Unfortunately, the price we pay for this efficiency is binary bias, which is distorted thinking that reduces things on a spectrum down to two categories.
Good and bad.
Right and wrong.
Or, if we want to take an example from the Bible, clean and unclean.
I could go on, but you get it.
Join me on today's episode as we explore the value of complexifying everything.
