Leadership And The Environment
254: Accidents of birth: communicating despite differences
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:17:38
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Synopsis
Following up episode 253, I address race, sex, sexual preference and other difference people use as excuses to stop listening or understanding over.Here are my notes I worked from:Podcast: Race, sex, sexual preference. I mentioned the race of the people who mugged me and my friends and who punched me in the jaw. Mayhave sounded unnecessary, which I suppose would raise questions as to why I mentioned.Because people keep bringing race, sex, and such up with me.Talking about race is a minefield outside a few platitudes in this country, especially for whites. They keep losing their jobs. Maybe talking about it will bring me down before I reach being well-known. Well, if it brings me down, it brings me down, but as it stands, people use preconceived notions to stop hearing me, as I'll describe in a second, so what do I have to lose?Changing culture to change billions of people's environmental beliefs and behaviors means people collaborating across all divisions so we have to figure out how to overcome these precon