ability to block out context…the opposite of holistic thinking. It’s the ability to separate, to view things in the abstract, to play devil’s advocate.” Decoupling has been found by the psychologist Keith Stanovich to correlate with performance on tests of logical and statistical reasoning, a type of intelligence that is valued in the River. I think of decoupling as the tendency to make “Yes, but…” statements. Let me give you a mildly spicy example of a “Yes, but…” statement.
