We all want people—and life—to be tamed and to make sense, so we sort and label things based on whatever information we have available.
Tag: Ready Set Think
Persuasion 157 | Thinking Twice, with Jen Pollock Michel
Show Summary For all the thinking we do, we usually don’t think twice about the preconceived notions we use to keep life simple. We like to place ideas into categories and give everyone a label according to their personality type or their social leanings. It’s a sort of shorthand, relieving us of the effort it…
Persuasion 156 | Thinking It Through
We’re kicking off a new series titled Ready, Set, Think! Each episode will explore how we arrive at our beloved stances and opinions and ways we can grow in processing information.