CHAPTER 5 How You See Is What You Get
Pillar 1, Challenge Your Perspective
This chapter focuses on how we can choose to humanize others, open ourselves to better understand others’ perspective, and deal with what stops us from doing so. I’ll help you identify a few ways you can improve in humanizing your ideological other.
Picture this: It’s 1968, and two curious researchers, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, step into a lively public elementary school in south San Francisco. They carry with them a burning question: How much does what a teacher expect of a student influence how that student performs?1
To start, they test the students’ IQs, but they keep the results a secret. They come up with an interesting experimental strategy. They randomly ...
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