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I have always been drawn to the idea of unconscious biases and blind spots and what happens in our unconscious mind. "Our brains are highly habitual.… - Vernā Myers
" "I have always been drawn to the idea of unconscious biases and blind spots and what happens in our unconscious mind. "Our brains are highly habitual. Our brains start reaching conclusions without immediately telling us that it's doing so," she said. "It's looking for things that go together; 'what have I been habituated to understand goes together?' We're backing up and moving toward people in social situations all the time.
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About Vernā Myers
Verna Myers is an American diversity consultant, Harvard-trained Lawyer, Activist, Author, Cultural Innovator, Founder and President of The Verna Myers Company and corporate executive in her role as the Vice President of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix. Myers gave a TED talk in 2014 called "How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them."
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We can’t have a conversation about that in 2021 without talking about what happened in 2020, and the tragedy of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and whole bunch of people before and after them. What I think we have – and let’s hope we can hold on to it– is the understanding that this stuff is systemic. That it is built in, that there was a social hierarchy established a long time ago that hopefully most of us don’t believe in but is nonetheless alive and well and on automatic every day selecting the same people, positioning the same folks and disadvantaging the same folks over and over again. So the awareness around systems I think has been powerful.
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