Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast where every week we talk about a different topic to do with work and share some ideas and tools and actions that we hope will help you to just navigate this squiggly career with a bit more confidence, clarity and control.

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You can also go to our website, Amazingif.com. And if you can't find any of that stuff, you can just email us. We're Helen and Sarah at squiggly careers.com. So in this week's podcast, we're talking about

how bias can hold back your career development. And you always know a topic is important when

it takes us a couple of times to actually get to recording it. We've done some research.

We chatted it through. We've restructured it a few times.

So hopefully this will be something that makes sense and that feels useful for you.

Because biases is a really big topic and there's a huge list of different biases.

So it's really easy, I think, to get lost in this topic. But there are a few that we think can be

particularly limiting for your learning and your career

development. So we're going to dive into some of those. But just to start with what a bias is,

it's an automatic way of thinking about something. Our brains actually really like them because

they are shortcuts that help us to filter information. They help us to understand the world. The issue is,

almost because our brains do like them, I think we attach ourselves to these biases. Sometimes we

don't know about them. Even when we do know about them, sometimes we don't do much about them.

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