Black and white thinking doesn't seem logical to me at all. It's reductionism. It's looking at only one parameter, where there are many others. One question may be yes/no, but that's only if you extract it from context. Getting that job may increase stress so much it kills you. So was it a plus getting the job? Only if you have reduced it to a yes/no question. I can make a pro/con list about anything. I'm married to the love of my life, seems I am loved unconditionally - even so, it's not perfect. I can make a pro/con list, but the cons are outweighed heavily.

I recently had an epic flail/fail with a job. You can see that on the job forum. Overall, I evaluate it as an experiment and successful because it provided me information I could not have got otherwise. Despite the tremendous pain it caused and will still cause because I have one more stupid hoop to jump through to end it (a meeting). It's not the kind of success I want a whole bunch more of, but I don't see it as black and white.

Black and white thinking is a clue that I need to look more widely to get the full picture, in my view.