The Alternative To Absolutes: The Gray Area

Understanding and embracing the gray area has many benefits:

• By understanding that things are not black or white, one has fewer expectations and assumptions, leading to less anxiety.
• Acceptance of imperfections makes life easy, and it is proven that perfecti...

Thinking in absolute terms is preferred as it appears certain, simple and less taxing on the brain. There is a certain cockiness in thinking in binary terms, as it gives us an illusion that we have everything figured out, and provides us with a false sense of confidence.

Let's define self-improvement. The definition of self-improvement is pretty self-explanatory: Self-improvement is the improvement of one's knowledge, status, or character by one's own efforts. It's the quest to make ourselves better in any and every facet of life.

Self-improvement almost al...