Shades of gray...

We love it when issues are just black or white. We especially enjoy it when we're totally right and the other side is totally wrong. It's simple, it suits our sense of fairness, makes us feel on top of the world and it's fast and easy.

This is also one of the reasons why people can't seem to get along anymore and we assist at a debilitating polarization at the political level with a frozen, broken down system.

Yet, people who do well in life, whether it's the successful entrepreneur, the couple that manages to stay married for more than 40 years or the effective negotiator know that success and happiness are neither totally white or black.

Instead, they're in some subtle shades of gray that fluctuate all the time. It's also called give and take, compromise, but those wonderful instruments of nuances are what in the end, signifies progress and advancement...