Wired for Inclusivity: Using Neuroscience to Bridge Workplace Differences with Shannon Murphy

We've inherited a brain that operates on fear. We've inherited a brain whose primary job is not critical thinking, it's not problem solving, it's not leadership effectiveness, it's not eq, it's survival. It's to keep us safe. Yep, exactly. Its job is to keep us safe, manage the body, the body budget, make sure that we live to see another day. That's its primary job and it dates back to this us them piece. It really dates back to just the biology of how the brain is developed because we very quickly, from a survival perspective had to determine friend or foe and ascertain that very quickly. But the brain doesn't go quickly. In as little as 200 milliseconds of seeing someone, the brain makes this instantaneous determination. Like me. Not like me. Comfortable. Not comfortable. The brain can trip us up no matter how well intentioned we are to be inclusive, to work effectively across differences.