Transcript - Building a World Where We All Belong (and Get Along) with Anu Gupta

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[INTRODUCTION]

[0:00:04] PF: Thank you for joining us for episode 522 of Live Happy Now. In a time of deep division and unease, overcoming our loneliness and uncertainty is a massive challenge, but this week’s guest tells us how we can begin. I’m your host, Paula Felps, and this week I’m joined by award-winning author, educator, lawyer, scientist, and meditation teacher, Anu Gupta. His best-selling book, Breaking Bias, is a rich tool kit to help each of us understand how to cultivate the wisdom and compassion we need to transcend the bias, prejudice, and turmoil in the world around us. In this episode, we talk about how to build a world where we all belong and get along. Let’s have a listen.

[INTERVIEW]

[0:00:46] PF: Anu, thank you so much for joining me on Live Happy Now.

[0:00:49] AG: Thank you so much for having me. I’m so delighted to be here.

[0:00:52] PF: You’ve got this incredible book that we want to unpack, and it’s really stunning in the breadth of its research as well as the timing of it. And this book, for our listeners, it talks about biases. And I’d love to know your background. What made you want to write about this particular topic at this particular time?

[0:01:13] AG: Yeah, absolutely. Well, there’s two reasons. There’s a personal reason and more of like an existential reason. I’ll start with the personal one. So the book is called Breaking Bias. And I really came to this work of breaking bias, I think the work chose me because I was born in India, and my family immigrated to the US when I was 10 years old. And after moving here in the mid-90s, I suddenly became an object of curiosity, but also a lot of othering.

Just because of the way I looked, and the way I spoke, and the way I dressed, I got called a lot of names like heathen, or pagan, or go back to where you came from. Just a lot of misconceptions. And I always was interested in understanding why people were so cruel to me for no other reason than my being, my skin color, my sexuality, my way of walking, talking, all the things.

But with that said, a lot of those comments really hurt me. I just suppressed them and I resolved as many of the ones do to just do what I can do to be the best I can be, which will succeed academically and professionally. And that journey really led me on uncovering kind of the intellectual reasons for where biases come from and why people have these false beliefs about themselves and one another based on socially constructed human identities.

But things, for lack of a better phrase, shit the fan when I went to law school. And I’d been at Cambridge right before studying gender, and ethnicity, and tribal, and religious differences. And I got my masters in there. And I came to law school because I wanted to be a human rights advocate, and I wanted to advocate for people that are feeling oppressed or marginalized for no other reason than their being.

But suddenly, I found myself in an environment where we couldn’t talk about bias openly. And whenever I shared my own experiences around being bullied, or harmed, or feeling depressed because of these biases that I experienced, my feelings, my emotions were denied. And I kind of internalized that. I was in my early 20s. I was 23 at the time. And I thought maybe everyone around me is right. Maybe the problem is me. Maybe I am wrong.

And that’s when I think for me, I kind of went to the – it was like a dark night of the soul moment where I found myself on the ledge of my 18th floor window about to jump off, and I did jump. This was in 2009. But for some reason or beyond comprehension for me, grace as some would say, I found myself back on the floor of my apartment window, of my apartment floor. And in that moment, I just called someone I had just met a couple of days before. And she lived quite far away from me, and she showed up in my apartment within minutes. She happened to be walking in my neighborhood.

That’s when the next day I began my own breaking bias journey because I started thinking about, “Well, how could I have done something that is unthinkable to take my own life?” And that journey brought me close to the neuroscience, to a lot of the tools, and practices, and ancient wisdom that humans have had for thousands of years and now neuroscience is showing to be really effective around transforming bias. And that’s how I began this work.

I started my organization in 2014 after working as a lawyer and pretty quickly realizing that we can change all the policies that we want. We can have anti-discrimination policies, anti-sexual harassment policies. But it’s not the policies and the words that matter, it’s really about the attitudes, the years, the beliefs of the humans who are executing those policies. For me, that’s where I was like, “Well, we have to shift hearts and minds, y’all.” Policy is important because it kind of is preventative, but we have to also shift hearts and minds. That’s kind of how I started the work. I’ve been training hundreds of thousands of people around this work in the last 12 years.

And the reason why I wrote the book is, actually, in 2020, the height of the pandemic, I got invited to be in conversation with Oprah Winfrey and Isabel Wilkerson around her book Caste, which uses a journalistic science-based approach to understand various human hierarchies that exist around the world, whether it’s a Nazi Germany, or in India, or America based on race. And she calls them “caste”, which is the eight reasons for how it’s built.

And the whole time I was with them, I was like, “Well, we understand how these systems came to be, but how do we dismantle them?” And that’s what I had been doing because the way we dismantle them is through mindfulness-based tools. The neuroscience has shown it. I was like, “Okay. Well, I don’t know if I am the person to talk about this because there’s so many other really, really smart people out there who know a lot more than I do.” Again, I was playing small.

And then a couple of months later, I, like most of us in America, witnessed the riots on January 6th, and I just had sleepless nights after that as someone who’s trained as an attorney who loves America, and the foundation of America, and the values we stand for. I was like, “How can my fellow citizens be so easily manipulated in this way?” And that’s when, to cut a long story short, through my meditations and prayers, this book is like – it’s like, “You have to write this book.” Set the record straight. That’s how this book came about.

[0:06:18] PF: Well, as you were working on it, you could not have foreseen the way that our world was going to change, the way that it’s changed in the last three months. Can you talk about how that makes this book even more relevant and more necessary for us? I think that is one thing that struck me as I was reading it. First of all, I’ve got to say from my heart, your description of what it felt like to be a child on the receiving end of the bullying and being different is heartbreaking. And I wish every parent would make their child read that to truly understand how those words land on another human being. That alone would make people stop, I think. But yes, talk to me about how this book has become even more relevant with the recent changes.

[0:07:07] AG: Well, thank you for saying that. And for me, I couldn’t have anticipated what’s happened in our world. And this is a global problem. Of course, we have our challenges in the US, but whether we look at France, or Germany, or Australia, it’s very similar challenges. And there’s a couple of reasons. One of the things I discovered is every kind of bias, whether it’s around race, or gender, or sexuality, or age, or class, or you name it, regional differences, north, south, you name it, right? Has five causes. And two of those causes are what we’re seeing being aggregate – or actually three, aggravated at a level that’s beyond comprehension.

The first cause is really a story. And it’s a false story. It’s a narrative that was constructed by a bunch of people. And then it kind of has infected our consciousness. And we all prescribe to this false story, which is of a human hierarchy. The one example I’ll give is there’s other whole chapter on race. And for me, as someone who’s brown, from India, but I could kind of be in the middle somewhere, I grew up in the US checking the box other because there was no option for me. It was black, or white, or other. And I was like, “That’s such a dehumanizing way of treating someone.” And being confused, I was like, “Well, where does this idea of race come from? Because it’s not something we have in India.”

And the more research I did on this, it’s like, “Oh, my God, a bunch of dudes who collected skulls in the 1700s came up with this idea of race and they divided the entirety of our species into these fabricated categories, five categories, that are so simplistic, because all of us are so deeply, deeply inherently mixed. But that idea of having biological and genetic differences across humans that are put in these categories still endures. And I was like, “Wow, we have to really get to the root cause, which is this false story.”

Now we believe in the story. And now the story is now aggravated by two other causes, which is education and media. Education is important because, right now, we’re seeing attacks on book bans and information bans across our education system. It’s going to continue to fragment human beings, particularly young people who are being trained to think about the right kind of being, the right way of being human when it comes to sexuality, or race, or color, or ideology. You name it. Again, that’s how our brain is being conditioned.

And the fifth cause is probably the most challenging, which is media. And you know what’s happening with social media, with AI and these algorithms that really control the way we consume information is that they are really trying to grab our attention. And we know that from the research that information that is laced with hatred and anger spreads six times faster than fast.

As a result, this is kind of a petri dish for misinformation, and disinformation, and further polarization. And that’s what we’re seeing in our world, sadly. And the challenge is really one of the heart. It’s the people that are really running these institutions of leadership, and what they’re valuing. They’re valuing money, they’re valuing more power and domination over wanting to really alleviate the suffering that humans experience day-to-day. And this is going to be, I feel like, the challenge of our century, for us to really overcome these divides within ourselves. And they’re very similar to the challenges of the past, whether it was doing Nazi Germany with the Holocaust. Similar mechanisms, manipulation, and propaganda to really rile people up against one another, or our own civil rights movement, or anti-slavery movements, and other things.

[0:10:44] PF: Yeah. And we see that being unpacked globally. But particularly here in the US right now, it’s simmering. This pot is simmering. And I know your intention is to build a world where we all belong and we all get along. But how does that work in a world where not everyone wants that? In our country right now, there are people who don’t want unity. They want the division. They’re calling for that kind of division. What role do we play as individuals in overcoming that division?

[0:11:17] AG: I’m really inspired by the neuroscience as well as a lot of the activists and leaders of the past. And one of the things that the Bible says, which I really love, is that we have to become the repairers of the breach. And the breach is – this was prophet Isaiah. And he prophesied that we will be that repairers of the breach. And Dr. King really talked about this idea of building a beloved community. And that is a community that we will be. But in order to get there, we’ll have to make qualitative changes in our souls and quantitative changes in our lives. For me, making these qualitative and quantitative changes is how we prepare the breach.

And having studied a lot of social movements that are successful, the self-project movements and others, and the civil rights movement in the US, the anti-colonial struggles in South Asia, I think the way these movements work and what’s happening with populist leaders who are trying to manipulate humans, we can’t change their behaviors because they’re so deeply embedded. Instead, what we need to do is really build with one another who share this common vision for a beloved community. And that work, oftentimes, I feel like even in organizations that advocate for change, they use shame-inducing language, they use us and them languages, our way of phrasing things, which kind of triggers the nervous system.

This is the inner work that we have to do if we’re imagining a world we all belong. And for me, where that really begins is in the heart, with ourselves. That’s why bias exists in four dimensions: internalize, personal, institutional, and systemic. And for me, we can’t really address it effectively externally. It must be also addressed internally first. And this is why I’ve written the book with a lot of these mindfulness tools.

The cool thing is we can build a new habit in as little as 18 days. It’s not something. It’s really by building new habits. The way I define bias is that it’s a learned habit. And just as it’s learned, it can be unlearned. And the way we unlearn it is through five different tools like compassion, and empathy, and altruism, curiosity, and mindfulness. The beauty of these tools is that not only does that help us overcome limiting beliefs we have about ourselves and one another, it also makes us feel good. It helps us tackle some of the other challenges of loneliness, and depression, and anxiety, and a whole host of health challenges that we’re experiencing in our society right now because we feel so separate. And that is the challenge, because we are not separate. We are completely and wholly interdependent.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who I love, from South Africa talked about this idea called Ubuntu, which is “I am because you are. And you are because I am.” It’s a very similar concept in the Buddhist mind sciences. Thích Nhất Hạnh used the word “interbeing.” We inter-are. For that to happen, some of us have to really wake up ourselves and do that inner work. And so many people are doing that. And then over time, we have to galvanize with one another.

I’ll say one last thing. The silver lining on this is that we don’t need 51% of the population, as we often think. We actually need 3.5% of us to come together. That’s Erica Chenoweth’s research at Harvard, that any successful social movement is when 3.5% of a society’s population comes together for a massive transformation. And we might have that, but we’re not coordinated yet. That is our goal now, to overcome –

[0:14:48] PF: Yeah. I definitely want to come back to that, like how do we become cohesive? How do we work together? How do we find the other part of our 3.5%? But I also wanted to ask you where our biases come from. Where they begin? And also, it seems like a lot of times we’re not even sure that we have biases. And how do we identify what our biases actually are?

[0:15:15] AG: Exactly. That’s a great question. The way biases – they’re stored in our brain. A really beautiful way I look at it, the Dalai Lama, I use this analogy from him. He often says that my religion is kindness and we’re all part of the same human family. And being part of the human family is really our primary identity as human beings. Geneticists have shown that human beings across difference, whether it’s ethnicity, or ideology, or race, or gender, we’re 99.9 % identical. We’re part of the same species. And there’s no gene for race, or ethnicity, or religion. These are stories that people have come up with and then prescribe themselves to.

Once we know that, all of the ways we break each other up are our secondary identities. And there are three buckets of that. There are biological identities, our genetics, our hair color, our eye color, our skin, whatever, and then our social identities. These are things assigned to us, the roles we take as a parent, as a grandparent, as a teacher. And then their experiential identity, things that happen to us. The alma mater we went to, our education, or trauma and experiences we had. I think understanding that is really important for us.

And the way biases work is that someone somewhere at some point in history has built a story and built a hierarchy around a better way of being human and a worse way of being human. And they told that story to a bunch of other people who started prescribing to that. And what’s happened is that the way our brains work is that when we look at something, we perceive it through a lens. And that lens becomes the way we see the world. But it’s really a story that was taught to us.

When we think of a surgeon, who do we think of? Do we think of a black woman, for example? There are black women who are surgeons. But there’s a story that’s been told to us what a surgeon looks like. When you think of a teacher, do we think of an Irishman, you know? Part of it is like there are Irishmen who are teachers, right? But part of it is, again, it’s how we’re conditioned. And it’s not a bad thing that we have these associations. It just is.

The way we become – we transform these biases. Becoming aware of them. We make the unconscious conscious. And that’s the bedrock of breaking bias, which is mindfulness. We become aware that, “Oh, this is my social conditioning. That’s how I’m seeing the world.” But then we have to remember that primary identity that we have, that we share with everyone. And we don’t make preconceived judgments of others for no other reason than their being.

[0:17:53] PF: We’ll be right back with more of Live Happy Now.

[0:18:01] PF: And now, let’s hear more from Anu Gupta.

[INTERVIEW CONTINUED]

[0:18:05] PF: That’s difficult right now, especially with the help of social media, because we can find constant reinforcement on our bias, wherever you stand. It exists. How do we then keep ourselves from getting on that hamster wheel of saying, “See? It’s exactly what we thought. See? They’re just like that.” How do we do that?

[0:18:29] AG: It’s such a good question. I think there are three important ways. First of all, we have to first become aware that social media, the way it’s designed, is to keep our attention focused on it. It basically has monetized the longer we’re on it, the more money the people that own these companies make. That’s why it exists. It doesn’t exist to serve us. It actually exists to extract from us our attention. That’s really important.

When we remember that, then we have to be intentional in our use. Why am I on social media? Is it because I’m running away from something, or something else feels uncomfortable, or I’m bored? Or is it because I want to connect with my friends, my family members who are also on social media? Part of it is like becoming intentional and being aware that as I’m consuming content, the content that’s being presented to me is actually a product of an algorithm that wants to keep me on there. That awareness piece. Once you’re aware with it, we can actually mindfully engage with it. I’m on there to not learn about news but to connect with my friends. That’s what I use it primarily.

And the third is we have to really modulate our relationship with media. There is so much research out there that is showing that the longer we are on our devices, on our phones, and on these social media apps, the worse our mental health outcomes become. And it’s because we’re not focusing on ourselves. Our attention is out there, right? It’s like common sense kind of. It’s like, “Oh, instead of cooking, I just wasted two and a half hours doom scrolling on –” I mean, I can’t do anything about the wars that are happening out there other than right to my representatives or make my descent known or whatever, right? Those things are important.

But consuming more and more of this hateful information, it’s only just going to get me incensed, raise my cortisol levels, my stress hormone, and make me feel bad about myself and the world and helpless. This is where I think we have to be incredibly intentional. It all begins with mindfulness. The three things again, it’s really know why it exists. Second is be being intentional with its use, but also to modulate its use.

I recommend the 20-minute rule. And this is going to be hard for some listeners and viewers here, but really limiting consumption of social media to 20 minutes a day or at 20-minute chunks throughout the day. And set a timer. Screen time is great with that, particularly on both iPhones and Google Androids.

[0:20:54] PF: And it’s also great to create an alternative. We say I will do this for 20 minutes. And then after that, if you have 30, 40 minutes that you would normally spend on that, I will take the other 10, 20 minutes to pick up a book, pick up something that’s going to enlighten me. That’s kind of what I’ve been doing recently. Really say like, “Okay, I will check this. I’ll give this amount of time.” But then I’m going to pick up an actual physical book that is going to teach me something and is going to change my state. And so it’s good to have something else to go to once we get all riled up from watching our feed.

[0:21:29] AG: Yeah. Or listen to music, go to a dance class, go for a walk, get coffee with a –

[0:21:35] PF: Yeah.

[0:21:36] AG: And that’s kind of where we forgotten the art. Sometimes you just get so enmeshed into stuff. But we have a body, we have a mind. There’s so much we can do. Draw, right? Go to a pottery class. Just get in our bodies.

[0:21:49] PF: Absolutely. And then just being with other people will change that tunnel vision that we’re kind of creating through social media.

[0:21:56] AG: That’s right.

[0:21:56] PF: You said that it takes 3.5 % of the population to make social change. How do we start finding those people? How do we start connecting? Because I think, too, we are so lonely, we are so disconnected. We’ll feel better just by connecting with other people who are like-minded, who have hope, who see a future beyond where we’re at right now.

[0:22:20] AG: Absolutely. I think for me, one of the things that’s really important right now is a lot of the challenges we face in our society here and around the world is kind of an absence of spirituality. It’s really a spiritual crisis. And you know, spirituality is very different from religion. I’m not talking about a dogmatic religion that just has one way to be right. But when I look at successful social movements of the past, they were always rooted in spirit.

Civil rights movement, think about the protest songs, it was always about being part of something bigger. The Indian independence movement, so much about spirit. I think for me, what’s really important right now for humans across the spectrum is to find communities that make them feel like they’re part of something bigger, but that doesn’t manipulate us. They’re not trying to take power over us or instilling fear in us. But rather, it’s actually giving us a place of joy. For me, I find that in many, many different places.

Of course, I have a meditation community that I work with, that I attend services, and just sit together with them. We talk about cultivation of positive emotions like compassion, and joy, and altruism. I also attend a church here in New York City, which is incredibly inclusive of all people, and it’s all about celebration. And members of the church include atheists and agnostics. It’s really about celebration of the human spirit.

But beyond that, it’s like going to SoulCycle, or going to a HIIT class, or a yoga class, right? And then not just going there and getting your workout and then leaving, but sticking around for about 10, 15 minutes and just talking to the instructor, talking to other people, and just getting to know people’s stories, right? And that, again, it basically allows us to not get into that tunnel vision of who others may be.

And particularly if we wanted to interact with someone across difference, right? How incredible. I think part of it is that, because of social media, and it has created these echo chambers, we see one another as ideas. Trans people as ideas. That I don’t know any – I do, but most people are like, “I don’t know any trans people, but the media is telling me trans people are this way.” And for me, when I first met a trans person, or befriended a trans person, I was like, “Oh, my God, they’re like rest of us. They’re just as quirky, and moody, and eccentric.”

[0:24:38] PF: Exactly.

[0:24:39] AG: They’re part of our human family. And just because they’re one identity is trans doesn’t mean that there are any exception, right? Similarly with immigrants, similarly with people across religious minds. I think that’s where the curiosity piece and seeing ourselves and others is so important.

[0:24:54] PF: That’s such great advice. And I think just by reaching out, making those connections with people who are unlike us can completely change our perspective. What is it that we can do to stay calm and mindful? You say it all begins with mindfulness, when we are emotionally triggered? Because there are plenty of things right now that can trigger us pretty quickly. How do we stay calm and mindful in those situations?

[0:25:19] AG: One of the things that I share in the book is the PRISM Toolkits. PRISM is an acronym for five tools that help us break bias. And starts with mindfulness and then goes to stereotype replacement, individuation, pro-social behaviors, and perspective taking. And these are just kind of science, neuroscience words for things that we do that are more somatically informed.

One of the challenges of our society is that we’re living neck up, but we have a whole universe below our necks, our bodies, our hearts, our digestive system, other things that are happening. My suggestion for folks is when we are feeling anxious and kind of almost numb and disconnected, the idea is to let’s leave the devices, turn the computer off, turn the TV off, turn off Siri, and whomever else we’re listening to, these robots all around us. Go for a walk or call a friend. Or the easiest thing that I’ve found is turn your timer for 30 seconds and jump.

[0:26:18] PF: Oh, I love that.

[0:26:19] AG: Basically, we’re gonna get out of our heads into our bodies. And that’s what’s really important because what’s happening with a lot of anxiety, particularly with just the challenges of our society, is we get stuck in these thought loops, which prevents us from responding and becoming aware of, “Well, where do I have power? Where do I have influence to do something about this?” And this is what’s really important. And then if we get stuck into thought loops, we’ve actually succumbed our power to the narratives that are being constructed for us. And we can’t use our own creativity and imagination to work with others to create alternatives.

[0:26:59] PF: And that is such a great point. And for people who feel hopeless, one thing that I’ve heard it’s like, “Okay, yeah, I can try making change within my community or whatever.” But they feel overall a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. How do you respond to that?

[0:27:18] AG: I have a craft project for people that feel hopeless. I want you to find 10 people, historical figures, who have endured some of the harshest conditions possible and lived with the truth of our human spirit, which is love, compassion, forgiveness. Jesus, before He was put on the cross, says, “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” Right? You can include Jesus. You can include Mother Mary. You can include those three people, but ten figures who are amongst the harshest conditions are doing incredible things, because that’s what we’re being asked to call. And whenever you move into hopelessness, you think about it.

I think about Malala Yousafzai. Prevented from getting an education. Shot in the face. And still, she persisted. I think about Gandhi. I think about Nelson Mandela. Think about Ella Baker. There’s so many human beings. Harvey Milk, right? I feel part of it is – and think about it from a global perspective. Indigenous leaders in Guatemala or in Brazil that are still, with empathy, with compassion, are fighting these big corporations that want to raise down the Amazon forest. Human beings that are protecting other species. There’s a spark of hope in them, right?

And so I feel like just creating a vision board with these humans, whatever their colors, whatever their backgrounds, but they represent that hope. Whenever our mind is, again, going there, where the mind goes, energy flows. If our mind is going towards hopelessness, abandon that thought and redirect it to what’s possible.

[0:28:53] PF: And I think we can’t underestimate the power of combined consciousness. As people become hopeful, as they lose hope, there is an energy that comes with that.

[0:29:05] AG: And that is really, really important because infusing hopelessness amongst people is the tool for populism, for authoritarianism, for fascism. Because people feel like, as humans, they can’t do anything, whether it’s in a religious fundamentalist community or it’s in a political sense. And that’s what’s happened under Mussolini, under the Nazis, under the Taliban is people feel hopeless, right? And there are simmers of hope there, we just don’t know about them. But a majority of folks. And that’s what we can’t. That’s why we have to build hope within ourselves.

The first President Bush, his legacy organization is called Points of Light. And it’s a really beautiful organization because it highlights humans who use volunteer work to spread their light. And all of us has that potential to be that point of light. And this is what I think, it’s really important for us to remember that where can I shine my light? And if my light is dimming right now, that’s okay. That’s okay. I’m becoming aware of it. And I’m going to start taking care of myself. I can shine it brighter. Yeah.

[0:30:16] PF: Well, Anu, you have given us so much to think about, so much to reframe the situations that we’re in right now and really give us a lot of hope, encouragement, and kind of a path to move forward. We’re going to tell our listeners, of course, how they can find you, how they can find the book. You’ve got all kinds of great ways to discover you online. But what is it that you hope every listener really takes away from this conversation today?

[0:30:42] AG: My deepest desire is for folks to know that the most important person in their life is them. The most important person in your life is you. And while there are a lot of distractions that are taking our attention away, I hope the listeners would take this opportunity as we are grabbing their attention to bring that attention inward towards them. Ask themselves where does it hurt. And then also back to some of the tools, the PRISM tools, and others to really heal. To heal whatever is kind of the cause of the breach, breach from love, from compassion, from understanding. And really not always seek that external validation, but know that they are enough and also that they are loved.

[0:31:29] PF: That is fantastic. Couldn’t think of a better way to end it. Thank you so much for the time that you’ve spent with us today.

[0:31:34] AG: Thank you, Paula.

[0:31:34] PF: Again, we’re going to tell them how to discover you. And I love the work that you’re doing and the life that you’re bringing into this world.

[0:31:41] AG: Thank you.

[OUTRO]

[0:31:46] PF: That was Anu Gupta talking about how to use mindfulness and awareness to start overcoming our biases and use compassion and presence as tools for lasting change. If you’d like to learn more about Anu, follow him on Substack or social media, discover his book, Breaking Bias, or download a free online course on Breaking Bias and Healing Division. Just visit us at livehappy.com and click on this podcast episode.

That is all we have time for today. We’ll meet you back here again next week for an all-new episode. And until then, this is Paula Felps reminding you to make every day a happy one.

[END]

In this episode, you’ll learn:

The five causes of biases and how they’re playing out today.
How social media reinforces our biases and how to use it more intentionally.
How to stay calm and mindful when we’re feeling emotionally triggered.

Visit Anu’s website.

Discover free online content about Anu’s Breaking Bias Summits.

Enroll in a free course on breaking bias.

Follow Anu on Substack.

Get Anu’s meditations on Insight Timer.

Follow Anu on Social Media:

Instagram: @bemorewithanu, @anuguptany
YouTube: @anuguptany

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