By Milo & Thuy Sindell PhD
Popular culture is obsessed with extremes. Whether it is fast cars, bizarre foods, extreme sports – bigger, faster, spicier, riskier…extremes are compelling. Our t-shirts even boast our pride in extremes, “Go Big or Go Home.” Our attraction to extremes comes naturally to us; our own base brain responses are composed of two extremes: fight or flight. We are naturally attuned to extremes because of the clarity in the polarities of black and white, fight or flight, etc.
