Winning the World

Session 7: Summary 135

3. We can operate on misconceptions which block our ability to read the data in a fresh way, as well as reinforce our old ways of seeing things.

4. We tend to reduce issues down to solvable, handleable, “bits and pieces,” chunks of reality which we put together to fit our “mosaic” of truth.

5. Once we become vested in a model or perspective, we can become aggressive, defensive, and obstinate about our position over against those that disagree with us.

6. We may become enslaved to a strict Aristotelian “either/or” kind of conceptualization and reductive thinking: All things are black and white with no grays .

7. Assume the impossible of multiple right answers to a particular problem or course of action.

8. We cultivate tendencies to see truths as mutually exclusive rather than complimentary and mutually reinforcing.

9. Tendency to see forms of dialogue with initially disagreeable positions as compromise and conceding to false and reckless positions.

10. We cultivate a looseness in our language habits, cultivating a failure to limit our terms or stipulate careful definitions of what we mean in our use of concepts and ideas.