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Bridging Divides with Ashish Kothari and Diana McLain Smith #shorts

28 May 2024 · 1 min

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Ashish Kothari and Diana McLain Smith explain why you can't see yourself clearly alone. Others spot your blind spots and hidden biases. Real self-awareness needs someone else in the room to show you what you can't see from inside your own head.

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Self awareness is so very difficult because of seeing ourselves from the inside out and others seeing us from the outside in. So one thing is it may be self awareness, but it cannot be done alone. It has to be done in relation to others who will help us see things we don't see, and we can help them see things they don't see. And so this is a collaborative process of cultivating self awareness. It's not sitting alone in your room saying, who am I? What are my beliefs? Because some of our beliefs are implicit biases. We don't even see them. Others see them. Okay, so it is a fundamentally interferable act.