The 93% Overlap Problem

Society is very partisan, but maybe it's not. Most of us honestly want the same things,, we just fight about the final few percentage points of how to get there.

I think I had heard of this Freudian term before, but I just saw it mentioned again in a Mark Manson newsletter.

To frame this up, there’s a study referenced that aims to find the similarities between people, which is very different than how America and the world feel these days, when everything is about difference. The study was large (86,000+ people) a…