Black and White Thinking

The opposite of black and white thinking is "staying in the gray". This means avoiding extreme thinking. I just realized last night that "staying in the gray" area pretty much is the same as being open -minded or not making any extreme judgements or opionions one way or the other. IT is trying to see both sides of a belief or judgement. Keeping your mind open to all ideas or thoughts or beliefs. This has to take practice. Somehow I have gotton into the practice of thinking in extremes. Another thinking error that this is closely related to is "all or nothing" thinking.

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