Changing the Unexpected to the Expected: Overcoming Bias and Examining Behavior

🧠Visualizing situations and changing mental images can help challenge biases and preconceived notions.

🤝Examining our own behavior and treating everyone equally, regardless of their appearance, is essential for achieving equality.

🌎Exposure to diversity and actively supporting inclusive businesses and candidates can help normalize the unexpected and challenge societal norms.

💼Unexamined behavior can hinder progress and limit opportunities for women in the workplace. It is important to challenge existing norms and expectations.

🔎Understanding how our brains instinctively react to the unexpected, and consciously taking steps to change those reactions, is crucial for creating a more inclusive society.

How can visualization help challenge biases?

—Visualizing situations before they happen allows us to consciously change any biases or preconceived notions we may have and helps us approach those situations with a more open mind.

Why is self-reflection important in overcoming bias?

—By examining our own behavior and questioning if we would treat people differently based on their appearance, we can become more aware of any unconscious biases we may hold.

How does exposure to diversity help change societal norms?

—Exposure to diversity challenges our existing beliefs and expectations, allowing us to see the unexpected as normal and promoting a more inclusive society.

Why is it important to examine unexamined behavior?

—Unexamined behavior can perpetuate biases and hinder progress towards equality. By challenging existing norms and expectations, we can create a more inclusive and equal environment for everyone.

How can we change our instinctive reactions to the unexpected?

—Understanding how our brains instinctively react to the unexpected, and consciously taking steps to change those reactions, such as visualization and self-reflection, is key to creating a more inclusive society.

00:11Visualizing situations and challenging biases.

06:17Examining behavior and the treatment of women in the workplace.

11:00The importance of self-reflection and not taking on others' work.

13:01Changing the unexpected to the expected and promoting equality.

15:51The power of visualization and exposure to diversity.