If you want to bring out the talent in other people, you have to look past your own biases, otherwise you will only be helpful to people who are clones of yourself.
-- Bruce Kasanoff
Sure. Sure, no problem. I can do that.
But, wait, it isn't that easy...or, it wouldn't be that necessary to note something like the above. We are biased, often deeply so. We believe in the way we go about things or in the reactions out of which we often live. We don't think others are right (or, as right), rather we believe that we are (largely) right.
To some extent, this is not all that surprising. We have come to know, what we know, through the grid of our experiences; the grid that has taught us and shaped us...the grid that we, somewhat helplessly, have become invested in.
The problem is when we enforce (something that biases can easily do) what we have come to know upon others -- when we don't have interest in or respect for the grid that others have or are using. Biases, to some degree, are amoral. They just are what they are. But, too often, we use our biases against others and, sadly, too often without knowing it.
We have to learn to see, to train ourselves to see, how others are made, how they have been shaped. If we don't, we neglect something significant in them, if not worse.
