AND

“It’s not binary! You can be gifted and decent at the same time!”
(Woz, talking with Steve)
Steve Jobs…the Movie

Perhaps the most significant (and insidiously unnoticed) flaw in our over-stressed, hyper-analytical existence is the pernicious tendency to reduce everything to a binary conflict.

EITHER in a perpetual Death Match with OR.

Republicans vs. Democrats

Men vs. Women

Haves vs. Have Nots

Nerds vs. Jocks

First World vs. Third World

Red States vs. Blue States

Words & Numbers vs. Pictures & Feelings

Tall vs. Small

Hard vs. Soft

Analytical vs. Experiential

Cops vs. Robbers

Russia vs. United States

North vs. South

New York vs. Los Angeles

Football vs. Baseball

Communists vs. Capitalists

Realists vs. Idealists

Winter vs. Summer

East vs. West

Artists vs. Writers

Service vs. Sales

Love vs. Hate
Look again.

That ancient icon, the TaiJiTu, is not a monument to endless opposition, but to perpetual motion. Without doing a thesis on the subject, just notice that there’s a little hard in the soft, a little vanilla in the chocolate.   They come, these opposites, in perfectly matched sets, dancing together in an endless Pas de Deux.

We do better in life, when we embrace our demons, our relatives, our counterparts, our spouses, our partners, our opposites; and realize that we all emerge from the same infinite source.  Perhaps our mirror selves have something to teach us, if we can only muster the courage required to come together.

In this New Year, take time to build better and more productive relationships.

It’s not Either/Or my friends, but AND!
Looking forward to sharing a new Cornerstones series on Sales & Counselor Selling with you beginning next week.

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