The concept of the Middle Way is thousands of years old — making it a piece of deep insight that has stood the test of time. It refers to a worldview or consistent practice of hewing towards the more moderate approach, tactic, behavior, or course of action.

• Buddhism — The Middle Way / Middle Path
• Confucianism — The Doctrine of the Mean
• Stoicism — Moderation as a virtue
• Aristotle — The Golden Mean
• Ethics
  • Against Extremism
  • Hierarchy vs. Fairness
• Mathematics
  • central tendency: the mean, median, and mode of statistics
  • Central limit theorem
  • The Normal Distribution
  • standard deviation
  • regression to the mean
• Science
  • The Goldilocks Zone
• Psychology
  • Well-balanced vs. Unbalanced
• Economics
  • economic equilibrium
  • stable currency
• Political philosophy
  • Thomas Jefferson — all men are created equal
  • James Madison — balance of powers; faction competition
  • Benjamin Franklin — moderation in all things
  • Median Voter Theorem
  • Teddy Roosevelt — the government should help all men rise
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower — the Middle Way

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