In Black-and-White Thinking, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton pulls back the curtains of the mind to reveal a new way of thinking about a problem as old as humanity itself. In our modern, interconnected world, it might seem like we are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges we face-that living with a binary brain is like trying to navigate a teeming city center with a map that shows only highways. We stereotype, pigeon-hole, and, above all, draw lines where in reality there are none. Confronted with a panoply of shades of gray, our brains have a tendency to “force quit:” to sort the things we see, hear, and experience into manageable but simplistic categories. Since then, the world has evolved-but we, for the most part, haven’t.
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Not coincidentally, the binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability to analyze threats and respond to changes in the sensory environment-a drop in temperature, the crack of a branch-was essential to our survival as a species. Though the world was arguably simpler back then, it was in many ways much more dangerous. Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains.
A groundbreaking and timely book about how evolutionary biology can explain our black-and-white brains, and a lesson in how we can escape the pitfalls of binary thinking.
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