1. Set boundaries and moderate your tolerance levels towards the bad.
2. Understand that it is not always possible to score 100 percent, and 75 percent isn’t a bad score.
3. Embrace multiple options, diverse choices and the for-or-against mentality, refusing to shut yourself in an echo chamber.
4. Be more curious when you hear something that is not according to your beliefs, assumptions or upbringing.
5. Challenge your own narratives and assumptions.
6. Realize that you are yourself a bundle of beautiful contradictions, which make you unique.

Many of us are practising all-or-nothing thinking, believing that the world is in absolute terms, and assuming that something that is not completely black or white has negative connotations or is murky and confusing.

The often-resisted gray areas, where th...