Psychology Today | 12.02.2026 04:10
Back in the day, a simple fact rang true: understanding required construction. If you wanted clarity, you had to build it from the inside out. You struggled with ambiguity and lived with uncertainty longer than was comfortable. But after all, you were building something. Importantly, this "cognitive building" didn't appear fully formed but emerged brick by brick and thought by thought. That work wasn't a barrier to thought; it was the architecture of thought itself. The distance between question and answer shaped judgment because the journey required the brick and mortar of human cognition.
