Without a preface or any further comment. Without any further ado, the December 22, 2020 edition of Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das. Read on…
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Q. What does one do if you disagree with the business or editorial decisions of the organisation that you work with. Just grin and bear it? Present your side of the story and get the organisation to change? Or just quit?
A. This thesis-antithesis approach to any issue is very binary in nature. But life can’t be pigeonholed into one’s own narrative. This approach stifles possibilities. That’s where an opposable mindset helps. This is a concept of Roger Martin. Martin claims that we are all born with an opposable mind. That is, the ability to hold two conflicting ideas or models in constructive tension. We can use that tension to think our way through to a new and superior idea…. Opposing models, in fact, are the richest source of new insight into a problem, as Martin averred. If one gets out of a mindset of “my way or highway”, an opposable mind can enrich the intellectual stamina of an individual.