NEW PODCAST > 7 IDEAS FOR LIFE: An Antidote to Polarity
Are you tired of living in an either-or world? Weary of people taking rigid, polarized positions. Done with being manipulated. Angry at being put in a victim position, imposed upon, spoken for, and assumed. Then we have some ideas for you!
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04/08/2018
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Are you tired of living in a either/or world? Weary of people taking rigid, polarized positions? Done with being manipulated? Angry at being put in a victim position, imposed upon, spoken for, assumed? Are you ready to move beyond either-or thinking? If yes, then this blog is for you (and please listen to the podcast series, click below on the link to the first episode). Polarized thinking has been around for a long time. It’s not always bad. There are times when taking a clear side is wise. But, when we are being seduced to pick a side, when our need to belong is being exploited, it’s a problem. This blog space is dedicated to bringing awareness to the exploitation of our natural tendencies to either-or thinking. And, the human implications. Unrelenting contradictory choices keeps us in conflict, wildly swinging to and fro. Certainly, not moving forward. The work of the brave. Recently, a college in Edmonton invited me to speak to their educators. How can they recognize either/or thinking in the classroom? And move beyond it, and its limitations. Profound questions. It was a brave and forward-thinking invitation. Not exactly what you would expect with all the brouhaha going on in education right now. Protect free speech! facing off against protect the students! Places like my alma mater, Wilfrid Laurier University, are thankfully getting their hands slapped for trying to turn students into fragile victims. When you are responsible for educating a diverse group of students, how do you create the conditions for authentic conversations? How do you call out political correctness and self-righteousness? You can’t do ‘everything for everybody all the time’. And, you don’t want to minimize the differences either. Educators, teachers, all the people who care about learning, are in a unique place right now. They have the power not only to influence students. But also, to demonstrate to the rest of the world what critical thinking looks like. Now, this may be a little mocking. And hopefully you will see it as playful. But I’m going to echo Jordan Peterson a little here, and his new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. As I presented to these educators in Edmonton, let me present to you, 7 Ideas for Life: An Antidote to Polarity. I don’t agree with everything Peterson says. But I like his truth bomb approach. It’s my style too. Break free of binary thinking. It easier to stay stuck in polarity when you stick with people who think, act and look like you. Anywhere you have diversity, there’s more opportunity to break out of binary thinking. And there’s risk and sensitivity too. Classrooms and workplaces and communities and social media spaces can be host to great, and no doubt enlivening, diversity. The college in Edmonton where I spoke has students hailing from 138 countries of birth, 103 languages are spoken on campus. Hundreds of students self-identify as indigenous and there’s wide age diversity. They also have students arriving with silver spoons in their mouths, and students from have-not families. It is a bastion of diversity. So, how do you nurture and navigate this space of incredible diversity, while at the same time assuring some coherence? Some shared sense of what you are all doing, together. It’s the same question we need to ask ourselves as Canadians – we’re a vast country with growing diversity. How do we reconcile the differences and our need to be one nation? We’re living in an either-or world. There is a lot of superficiality and knee-jerking going on. In business. In politics. In what used to be diplomacy. Sometimes, it feels like we’ve all forgotten that it takes grit and hard work to do trade negotiations. To do any negotiations.
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