The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)
I agree with the article in general, but that said, I do think a lot of successful people are successful because they are highly opinionated in black-and-white ways. Coming across people like this in life can be frustrating whether they tend to be right or wrong. I&#x27;ve definitely known and worked with a few people who were black-and-white thinkers and abstracted away and ignored a lot of second order effects that could negate their opinion, but had such good intuition that they tended to be right anyway.<p>A good read on this is “The Cognitive Distortions of Founders” by Michael Dearing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;Ri20AKKuL2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;Ri20AKKuL2</a>.