Thinking in gray is hard.

We start off thinking in black and white, and it's very comforting.

It's much easier to be decisive in a black-and-white thinking mode.

All you need to do is identify which side is right (which, what a crazy random happenstance, tends to be whichever you started on), and you're done.

It's easy to think that people who constantly flip-flop clearly just aren't as decisive as you.

But at a certain point the world will beat black and white thinking out of you.

The real world does not fit into clean black and white categorizations.

The real world is cruel and complex and unyielding.

At a certain point people tend to lose black and white thinking, and when they do it feels like a terrifying and disorienting loss.