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  1. Aug 2020
    1. And the converging lines means that we automatically turn that two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional one. It's automatic, we can't help it.

      this is just so interesting! why do we do this? is it a glitch in our system?

    2. And ironically— and the work on unconscious bias is full of ironies— one of the ironies is that those people who believe they have no bias probably are the most biased because there's no reflection going on.

      dealing with people that don't reflect on themselves can be difficult at first. People who are more self aware pick up to the people who can be more bias, and - for me anyway shift my perspective on that person.

    3. So you've got prove everybody wrong versus do the best you can.

      i do believe that in certain situations this could work, although some people don't like to be challenged. what is another way we cold word this? i wonder. i certainly disagree with do the best you can. you are telling someone that you aren't really confidant in their abilities.

    4. They duck down underneath the counter, staple the form, come back up, give it back to the person, say, can you go to the room over there, please? What they didn't realize was that was the beginning and the end of our experiment. Right? That was the beginning and the end of our experiment. [AUDIENCE LAUGHS] The person who went down underneath the table was not the same person who came up.

      i love the different 'outside of the box" studies we can do that prove so many different things.

    5. But if they had thought about it 10 or 15 years before, they probably would have liked to have made more progress than they had done.

      they got comfortable with what they were doing. they weren't being mindful of the biggest picture because what they were doing came naturally to them. interesting.

    6. One is that we can turn the mirror on ourselves. Instead of blaming other people, actually just kind of reflect on our own behavior, increasing our own self awareness. That can make a difference. Secondly, we can actually just tell ourselves not to do it. Consciously try not to display bias in decisions we're making. And the third thing we can do is actually to challenge, in an appropriate manner, people around us. Get us to review decisions. And leaders in particular, have a higher role here in terms of being role models to other people in the organization.

      I believe that i am a good person, but this right here is something i have been consciously working on for a few years. it takes so much practice and like he said self-awareness. I'm constantly checking my actions. Am i doing this because of the day i had? or because this person did this? i find meditation helps.

    7. Unconscious, but not random. I may not be aware of it, but something impelled me to go in one direction rather than another.

      ohhhh my! this is an ah- ha moment for me. matters of the mind are so interesting to me. i want to know why we do this!!!

    8. It doesn't matter whether you finish that sentence positively or negatively, the French will have been treated as a homogeneous group of people. They are all the same. We will remember the negative things they've done, we will forget their contributions, and generally speaking, we won't be so helpful towards them.

      so very true. i really dislike the term "boys will be boys" most of the time people view boys as busy, rough and tumble, etc. i cannot disagree more. boys and girls differ because of personality, not gender!

    9. I created a motivation, a goal in you to start searching for something

      we can be so easily influenced! this means our words and actions matter so much, especially when we are dealing with an array of students from so many different backgrounds

    10. So what can we do? Well, one of the things that we can do is actually turn the mirror on ourselves. Instead of thinking that bias is somebody else's problem, which is what we tend to do, it's actually a problem for me.

      this is very very true. An old saying goes something like "we always look at other people, but never carry the mirror around yo look at ourselves" Bias is 100% our own problem and to often we cant see it.

    1. Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.[1][2] An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment.[3]

      i fully agree