Quick snippets from our morning read on Friday, 04th December 2020
Ivan’s Note: Today’s morning read is an article I wrote addressing Implicit bias picking from my own experience. There are things we do based on the unconsciousness of our bias towards them. Implicit bias manifests in so many ways; how we do our work differently in different seasons, how we treat different people differently, in our daily habits, among others. Here are two main factors to outgrowing your implicit bias.
Outgrow Your Implicit Bias
Be Self-Aware
Implicit bias being the prejudices and beliefs we possess but aren’t aware of, it takes more for us to discover what our implicit biases are. It therefore takes a lot of intentionality and self-reflection to first; discover and then work towards outgrowing them. When you become consciously aware of the prejudices and beliefs you possess, these become explicit and it is easier to outgrow them.
For over 20 years, millions of people have used Project Implicit to discover potential prejudices that lurk beneath their awareness. Through Project Implicit, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report.
Put In the Work
You can only achieve or make progress on something by actively and intentionally working on or towards it. Since many of our thoughts, beliefs and ideologies are formed by the environment we grew up in, we owe it to ourselves (and those around us) to outgrow our biases, even the implicit ones. This is one of the reasons as to why exposure and education are important.
Read the full article here
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