One Apple A Day #695 - the paradox of simplification
A few days ago, I had an inspiring conversation that made me reflect on the risks of oversimplifying reality. I'm talking about that tendency to view every situation through a binary filter. Such as "right or wrong", "us and them", "good and bad", "winners and losers" and so on.
In Being At Full Potential, we call this the State of Binary Awareness. A state of awareness from which everything is reduced to a duality.
Reducing things in life to a binary perspective, it's a way to cope with its complexity that comes from our need to belong; my tribe and the rest of the world.
Though in this increasingly connected world, I feel that this simplification makes life even more complicated. It creates tensions, conflicts and divisions.
It is a kind of paradox.
Maybe, if we accept that life is complex and that there are infinite nuances in everything, we can relax all these tensions and free ourselves from the dividing walls we built.