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How to avoid saying the wrong thing

How to avoid saying the wrong thing

From the course: Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences

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How to avoid saying the wrong thing

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- The number one way to stop saying the wrong thing is to just slow down. And I know that's hard sometimes for people to do especially because the scientists that study unconscious bias tell us that our unconscious thoughts are the better predictors of our behavior than our expressed views. So you don't even know what's rushing out of your mouth half to the time, so if you can just be on the lookout for the bias and if you think possibly you may be jumping to conclusions too quickly, just slow down. Sometimes you're going to get information or data or someone's going to say something that gives you some information that will cause you to adjust what you were thinking and what you were more importantly saying or doing, so that's I think a really important thing. I also think we just have to be a little bit more suspicious about what we think we know. We often think I know who this person is or I understand this situation. Someone says to me sometimes, "I just know in my gut. "When…

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