More Both/And and Less Either/Or

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In this episode, my friend Dr. Jude Garnier joins me for a discussion about our abilities to more patiently hold seemingly opposite perspectives, possibly in the same moment, and how we can more patient in how we make sense of what's going on around us.
We use this quote from Dr. Robert Kegan to get us started: “You start...constructing a world that is much more friendly to contradiction, to oppositeness, to being able to hold onto multiple systems of thinking...This means that the self is more about movement through different forms of consciousness than about defending and identifying with any one form.”
And then we move on to another Robert Kegan quote Jude brought along: "Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive to them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange."
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