It’s counterintuitive, but developing the ability to hold opposite thoughts in our minds, can provide a creative approach to solving problems. Doing so is often challenging because we’re taught to think in terms of the right way and the wrong way. But Paradoxical thinking (or Janusian thinking, named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces diametrically opposed), is often responsible for constructs and models in science, as well as new organizational and practical approaches. It’s what the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Niels Bohr used when he determined that light exhibits characteristics of both waves and particles. These opposing ideas, while contradictory, can be advantageous together.