&quot;Of all the mental habits that encourage polarization, the most dangerous is probably binary thinking&quot;<p>Does this article recognize it&#x27;s own irony? It&#x27;s a whole article about &#x27;depolarizing&#x27; as opposed to &#x27;polarizing&#x27; and within it, is the line I quoted above.<p>Here&#x27;s a thought - intelligent people don&#x27;t have these problems and they don&#x27;t need 7 vague bullet points that are impossible to follow.<p>Dumb people lack nuanced points of view - they polarize&#x2F;simplify a great deal because that&#x27;s how humans are - we first learn to think &#x27;hitting other people is bad&#x27;, and only later learn that &#x27;most times hitting other people is bad&#x27;.<p>When do people learn philosophy and different types of fallacies? For most people, the answer is never. How many people grok fallacies, philosophy and have emotional intelligence to boot? Even fewer.<p>Thank god someone wrote an article that by-passes all that though, it&#x27;s just the 10 commandments you need, oh sorry I meant 7 habits...