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Originally Posted by raymor
Lately I've been seeing both sides of a lot of things. This FEELS like a major step of becoming more mature. ... Do you think this is really a much more mature way of thinking ... or does it just feel like a wiser course?
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." -- -F. Scott Fitzgerald, essay: The Crack-Up, February, 1936.
Personally, yes, I do think that it's very important to be able to see both sides of most things, and that not being willing or able to do that is a sign of either immaturity or a lack of the required intellect to parse the problem or idea being considered.
But of course I do see the other side too.
