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In an era of marketed certainties and polarized opinions, cultivating nuance becomes almost an act of resistance, running counter to the mechanisms of polarization and homogenization.

Cultivating nuance is not easy. Several obstacles, deeply rooted in our organizations and our psyches, stand in the way.

Nuance is not innate. It is cultivated and refined. Here are a few concrete approaches, drawn from our twenty years of experience working with clients and from our reading in the field of cognitive science.

Some questions have no simple solution, so we might as well keep the space for questioning open. Let us reclaim our capacity to marvel at what we do not yet understand.

In a complex world, nuance becomes a competitive advantage. It is a matter of developing a meta-skill: knowing which mode of thinking to employ depending on the context.

How can we be both homogenized and polarized? That is the very paradox of our information age: we all think alike, yet we arrive at opposite conclusions.