933 | Howard J. Ross: “The Question is Not, Do We Have Bias? The Question is, Which are Ours?”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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We’re all biased. We all have prejudiced. It’s literally how our brains are wired. On today’s episode, Howard J. Ross, author of Everyday Bias , shows you how becoming aware of your biases and prejudices is the key to changing the world we live in.

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0:00.0	Yo today's QOD is the question is not do we have bias the question is which are ours?
0:09.3	Here we go
0:30.0	Welcome back to the Quot of the Day Show. I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and
0:40.1	.com. We got a brand new speaker on the show today. His name is Howard J Ross. Everybody needs
0:48.4	to know about Howard J Ross. I'm surprised his name hasn't come up a lot lately with all of our
0:53.4	recent events. I read a book by Howard called Our Search for Belonging several years ago and it
1:02.9	just blew my mind. I use some of his stuff on my money mind academy course when we're talking about
1:09.9	biases and how the brain is wired. He also has another book which is going to be re-released next
1:15.2	month called Everyday Bias. It's available on Kindle right now. I haven't read it but I hear it is
1:20.7	absolutely amazing. I want to do a quick thought experiment with you. Now imagine whenever you
1:31.9	encounter an object or a person will say or a place or a thing that every single time you encounter
1:39.6	something you have to make an assessment of it. A brand new assessment. A brand new evaluation.
1:48.4	You have to decide is this person this place this thing is it for me is it is it against me
1:55.3	is it good is it bad is it going to hurt me is it going to be good to me is it right is it wrong
2:02.3	imagine doing that for every single encounter that you have it would be absolutely draining
2:11.6	because your brain works on something called the efficiency principle your brain doesn't like to
2:17.2	expend a lot of energy and calories and needs to save that energy just in case you know you run into a
2:24.2	very dangerous situation your brain your biology is really all about survival and so you don't have
2:31.2	to make these calorie consuming assessments all the time your brain relies on biases so your brain
2:40.9	puts everything into categories and says this is that way these people are like this and it just
2:47.1	makes things very efficient I know it kind of sounds like it sucks but it's just it's just the real
2:51.9	deals how the brain is wired and you know I think if more people knew about Howard J Ross and his work
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