Why I, as a strategist, choose to be a synthesizer

Because "splitting" is just too self-negating

Jim and Sara Nuttle illustration from “America’s New Map”

Rather brilliant piece by Amanda Ripley at WAPO on humans’ innate need to divide the world into two types of people: good and bad:

Humans carve the world cleanly in two when they feel threatened. There’s a right and a wrong, a good and an evil, an us and a them. In normal times, this behavior is most obvious in people with serious depression or borderline personality disorder. Psychologists call it “splitting.”

I myself divide the world into three types of people: those who can do math, and those who cannot.

I used to divide the world into people who can divide the world into two types of people and Bears fans, but my kids found it confusing and one sister-in-law found it deeply insulting.