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Skill of Both-And
"Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action."--Ecclesiasticus 38:33
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."--Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American founder of General Semantics, (1879–1950)
Use the saying below to help you to remember not only to look both ways, but also to look with both ways.
"It's not either-or
but both-and-more!"
--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
BALLET EXAMPLE
Some argue ballet is technical and formal.
Some argue ballet is theatrical and artistic.
Some argue ballet is musical and rhythmical.
Good ballerinas are technical.
Better ballerinas are technical and theatrical.
Best ballerinas are technical, theatrical, and musical.
While it is rare for one ballerina to exemplify all three in their dance, it does happen. Margot Fonteyn is an example of one ballerina who had all three and all the time.
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman."--Chung Tzu
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it."--Olin Miller
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."--Eric Hoffer
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."--George Bernard Shaw
"There's a pinch of the madman in every great man."--French proverb
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."--Alfred North Whitehead
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."--Plato, The Republic
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."-- Confucius
"The worst extreme view is the extreme view that extremes never exist."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Use 'mostly' rather than 'this' or 'that' thinking."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Both/and thinking provides both more openness and more information than does either/or thinking."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
REBT's 11 Irrational Beliefs
Human Rights: United Nations Declaration
Perfectionism Has its Perfect Place
Postmodernism or Constructivism