The second thing is about experience and expectations.
I have a 20 month year old nephew and I find it amazing to look at him and see pure innocence. Free of bias, prejudice, discrimination and more. We learn these stereotypes like, women can't drive well from our experiences from other people and in our life. I just find it amazing that we learn all these negative things in the world, and its incredible to compare it to pure innocence..
we know that untrained interviewers will make their minds up about a candidate within the first two minutes
First impressions matter, this true among all humans. We are susceptible to bias when we first encounter someone and make judgements about them based off everything we can see, touch, smell. Something to be aware of and a bias we all have and should recognize.
Once we've made a decision about something, we stop scanning, right? We've made our minds up, we stop scanning. So we're not processing anymore
When presented with a question we think we know and are familiar with, we choose our answer with 100% confidence. Once we choose we do not normally go back and look again, however if you truly scan and process further on questions you thought you knew, you may pick up on something you missed. This is why we should always reread questions.
We notice some difference more than others. It's automatic. It's like that. We just notice.
I know this to be very true in almost the entire population because I have studied magic tricks and slight of hand. The human eye is gullible, easy to fool, its tendencies are known by many people, and they use this to their advantage to perform magic. It's astonishing but our eyes all work the same, and can be fooled quite easily.
If I believed I had no bias, why on earth would I ever need to reflect on my behavior, review my decisions, or change anything about myself? Because I'm perfectly content in what I'm doing.
He couldn't be more correct with this statement. If you think that you are the most unbiased person then you must make the right decisions all the time and make no mistakes. The only way to be content with what you are doing and to be be unbiased, is to realize you will make mistakes.
The world is not divided up into those people who have bias and those who don't. It is divided up, though, into those people who recognize they have bias and those people who think they have none
Just by understanding that you have personal biases or any type of bias, puts you at in a better position in life than those who think they have no bias. People who think they have no bias are quite ignorant because to have bias is to be a human, so there is no point in trying to deny that.
We can all make mistakes
As a psychologist he talks about making mistakes. He is a professional and admits making mistakes. We are all human and make mistakes. As long as we learn from our mistakes we can become better people.
. And it quickly became apparent that there is a problem. And the problem is us. We are the problem
Almost all large world issues, conflicts, catastrophes stem from human action. We innovate, create and build. But we also destroy and cause much destruction and create issues from our actions. This is apparent across all fields.
Names are actually an important part of our identities
Our name is the first thing we learn that is associated with something. The association is us, your name is apart of you from the moment you can understand any part of language. Whenever you hear your name called you automatically respond with turning your head and listening, our names are very much apart of our identity.