Hybrid Approach to Informing Yourself

If you look at people who are successful in accomplishing their goals, you will see that they often have utilized a variety of strategies to do so.

If one looks across the spectrum of examples in society, many successful ventures are the result of joint ventures in which contributors share resources, roles, etc.  It might be public and private partnerships.  It might be an interdisciplinary team that provides healthcare.  It could be the healthcare approach by a society which involves a public component and supplemental private coverage – sometimes a more even combination might be referred to as a hybrid system.

Similarly a hybrid approach is best whenever you read or watch a news story or are attempting to critically evaluate anything for that matter, an approach which honestly considers the good points as well as the bad points is the best path to follow.

Don’t get caught into the trap of trying to defend your own perspective instead of recognizing the good points of another.  This is what happens all too often with politics, for example.  Admittedly sometimes one perspective is better than the other but not usually to the complete abandonment of the other.  More precisely it’s probably a matter of looking at the conclusions that are being drawn from either argument.  Give this a shot the next time there’s an opportunity to critically evaluate something.