Tag: dialectical thinking

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dialectics, and the Art of Functioning in a World of Contradictory ‘Facts’

By psychologistmimi on January 13, 2025 • ( 2 Comments )

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” As a psychologist, let me tell you, that quote is the ultimate mic drop for […]

The Psychology of Contradictory Sayings and their Applications to Surviving the Workplace

By psychologistmimi on August 26, 2012 • ( 3 Comments )

“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence” William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell I love that quote-Talk about opposites attract! William Blake was one of my mom’s favorite poets. It was the first book […]