https://lgovea.com/tags/gray-thinking/ Recent content in Gray Thinking on lgovea Hugo en 2026 lgovea Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:21:23 -0600 https://lgovea.com/posts/the-power-of-gray-thinking/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:21:23 -0600 https://lgovea.com/posts/the-power-of-gray-thinking/ <p>A mental model I keep coming back to is Gray Thinking. It’s the ability to resist the urge to judge something as purely black or white too quickly. Instead, you stay in the gray longer. You hold multiple possibilities open, gather more information, and look for the nuance that binary thinking usually misses.</p> <p>Most things in life are not so cleanly black or white. Yet our minds and many of our workplaces prefer the simplicity of either/or. When I catch myself forcing a problem into a strict binary frame, it’s usually a warning sign that I’ve taken a cognitive shortcut. It simply feels easier and less overwhelming to say “it’s either A or B.” That’s an illusion of simplicity. The binary view may not be wrong, but in my experience it almost always means something important is still missing.</p>