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Be Open to Changing Your Mind

Be Open to Changing Your Mind

  • Don’t be rude or hostile.
  • Don’t create echo chambers: Express opposing views, and explain the reasoning behind them.
  • Engage in the conversation: Don’t state your position and walk away.
  • If no one has changed their mind after three rounds of going back and forth, consider agreeing to disagree.
  • If you change your mind, be proud of it and tell people you did so. 

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Empathy Deficit

Empathy Deficit

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us.

The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems. It’s because of how ...

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Join Forces for a Shared Cause

Join Forces for a Shared Cause

Working on a project with other people reinforces everyone’s individual expertise and humanity, and minimizes the differences that can divide people.

  • Work on a community garden.
  • Do political organizing.
  • Join a church committee.
  • If you have experienced grief or l...

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Be Honest With Yourself: Check Your Privilege

Be Honest With Yourself: Check Your Privilege

The flip side of bias is privilege. Bias puts certain groups of people at a disadvantage in our society, while privilege puts other groups at an advantage. 

Your privileges are things that give you special status that you didn’t earn and don’t necessarily realize you benefit from. One examp...

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Talk About Bias

Talk About Bias

Many parents, especially those who are white, try to avoid talking about race, gender identity, income level or other differences among people, believing that if they expose their children to diversity without making a big deal about it, their children will grow up without prejudice. 

But r...

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Teach Them to Fight Stereotypes

Teach Them to Fight Stereotypes

Researchers say children are aware of stereotypes by age 3. Counter them by encouraging children to do a wide variety of activities and spend time with a range of friends. Model the same in your own life — starting with sharing the chores at home. 

Teach them what to do if they experience d...

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Change My View: Twitter Without The Trolls

Change My View: Twitter Without The Trolls

 the Change My View subreddit is a discussion board with a twist. People have described it as the most civilized place on the internet, where people respectfully di...

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Learn to Listen

Learn to Listen

Use your body language to show that you’re open to listening: uncross your arms, lean slightly forward, and make eye contact. 

Pay close attention to the speaker’s facial expressions and body language, which can convey more emotions than their words. 

  • Don’t interrupt.
  • Ask...

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Try Out Someone Else’s Life

Try Out Someone Else’s Life

Don’t just stand in someone else’s shoes, as the saying goes, but take a walk in them.

Attend someone else’s church, mosque, synagogue or other house of worship for a few weeks while they attend yours, or visit a village in a developing country and volunteer. Spend time in a new neighborhoo...

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It's Not About You

It's Not About You

  • Remember that you don’t need to understand everything about someone to make them feel respected.
  • Advocate for things that will help others, even if they don’t directly affect you.
  • Don’t make assumptions about people based on what your life is like.
  • In workplaces, wome...

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Raise Empathetic Kids

Raise Empathetic Kids

Ask children what they think characters in books or during imaginative play are feeling, based on their facial expressions or what’s happening to them in the story.

Don’t instruct your kid to say sorry. Instead, ask questions like: “How do you think he’s feeling? What could you do to help h...

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Practice Empathy

Practice Empathy

So what is empathy? It’s understanding how others feel and being compassionate toward them. It happens when two parts of the brain work together, neuroscientists say — the emotional center perceives the feelings of others and the cognitive center tries to understand why they feel that way and how...

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Talk to New People

Talk to New People

  • Start conversations with strangers or invite a colleague or neighbour you don’t know well to lunch. Go beyond small talk – ask them how they’re doing and what their daily life is like.
  • Follow people on social media with different backgrounds than you have (different race, religion or...

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Admit You're Biased

Admit You're Biased

We’re all biased. Acknowledging that is the first step. The second step is taking action to overcome it.

Bias is a natural part of the human condition. This is adaptive for us to take mental shortcuts and make conclusions about the people around us. Actively working to combat that is what m...

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Stand Up for Others

Stand Up for Others

Empathy should drive us to act compassionately toward others. The next step, after acknowledging your privileges, is to put them to use on behalf of groups who don’t have them.

Donate money to causes that help people in need or attend a rally in support of them. 

Speak up when someone...

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Read Books

Read Books

Reading is one of the best ways to open your mind to the experiences of others.

Reading literary fiction requires people to enter characters’ lives and minds – and by doing so, it increases people’s capacity to understand other people’s thoughts and feelings, researchers at the New School

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Hard Conversations

Hard Conversations

If you’re uncomfortable with the topic of conversation, or if someone has told you that you said something that was offensive, the first step is to listen. Some common errors, experts say, are:

  • focusing on your own feelings instead of the other person’s
  • making the conversation ...

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Again, Talking to People Helps

Again, Talking to People Helps

One of the most important ways to confront bias and privilege in your life is to hear from others about their everyday lives, and consider how they’re different from yours.

It can be as simple as having lunch with a colleague and asking about their routines, she said. Maybe you’ll learn tha...

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The Three Steps

The Three Steps

  • Step One: Don’t say anything. Just listen.
  • Step Two: If you offended someone, apologize (and apologize earnestly).
  • Step Three: Do your research. Read articles written by people who have had firsthand experiences with what you...

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