Elephants and molehills: dealing with blinkered or extreme thinking - The Churning

Elephants and molehills: dealing with blinkered or extreme thinking - The Churning

In a changing world it is easy to make assumptions that no longer hold true. One of the commonest ways we can do this is called ‘blinkered thinking’ or ‘extreme thinking’. Blinkered thinking happens when we only see part of the picture. We see the world in terms of extreme opposites: either “utter failure” or “success beyond our wildest dreams.” We make mountains out of molehills or we ignore the elephant in the room. Reality, of course, lies so…