Best of 2024: Anu Gupta | The Science of Breaking Prejudice and Stereotypes
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Join Anu Gupta as he unveils the deep-seated impact of bias in shaping social and personal dynamics. In this episode, Anu explores his journey from witnessing bias as a child in India to combating it through education and legal advocacy in the U.S. Learn how unconscious biases influence our behavior and decision-making, and discover actionable strategies for fostering inclusivity in various aspects of life.
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
| 0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
| 0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
| 0:18.5 | recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. |
| 0:24.7 | What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's |
| 0:28.9 | unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose. |
| 0:31.6 | I saw what institutional bias was, like, and vistrily experienced it when I was working in courtrooms in |
| 0:39.4 | New Orleans, where I would be going to a sentence in court, and I would see a defendant box |
| 0:44.5 | full of young black boys and men, ages between 15 to 40, and they were being sentenced to |
| 0:49.9 | prison for what I thought were tiny sentences. Breaking cell phones, trespass to property, possession |
| 0:55.5 | of low levels of marijuana. This was like 2009, 2010. And for me, as someone who was at an elite |
| 1:01.5 | law school, my classmates had all sorts of controlled substances, but there are now some of the |
| 1:06.5 | most well-respected attorneys in the world. So there was that frequency that I saw immediately. |
| 1:12.3 | And also, I was working onrepancy that I saw immediately. And also, |
| 1:17.5 | I was working on the court side. I knew the judge. I knew the prosecutor. I knew a lot of the probation officers that were in the courtroom and other court officials. They weren't bad |
| 1:22.1 | people. Yet they all had a shared perception of what a right kind of human being is and then how to punish that |
| 1:28.6 | human being. And that shared perception is what impacts the decisions they make. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into the stories and |
| 1:44.8 | insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, |
| 1:50.0 | written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 |
| 1:54.4 | episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com. Anu, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative. |
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