These steps are great tips to start to reflect and alter some of your blind spots.
Broadening your circle is one that would require quite a bit of effort on a personal level, just due to the natural grind that life gets you end and routines that you constantly existing. I have found that as I’ve gotten older, they become more ingrained, and when I was younger, my circle of people that I have surrounding myself with were a much more broad group. Playing basketball in college Made this a much easier task as my circle expanded to a much different and more diverse group than I ever grew up around. 20+ years later, since that time in my life, my circle has probably shrunk back the other way, and it’s primarily a small circle of friends and family that I spend the most of my time with.
I also think that monitoring my consumption of media is a activity that would be beneficial. Like most, I am probably guilty of feeding the perceptions that I already have by consuming the same things over and over again, and getting the same viewpoints fed to me that reinforces the loop. Reaching out to other places could be very beneficial to help fill in some of those gaps and understanding a variety of different people. I like their suggestion of social media as a easy, quick place to access people very different than you, and hear their stories and experiences in order to help understand others more broadly.
Broadening your circle is one that would require quite a bit of effort on a personal level, just due to the natural grind that life gets you end and routines that you constantly existing. I have found that as I’ve gotten older, they become more ingrained, and when I was younger, my circle of people that I have surrounding myself with were a much more broad group. Playing basketball in college Made this a much easier task as my circle expanded to a much different and more diverse group than I ever grew up around. 20+ years later, since that time in my life, my circle has probably shrunk back the other way, and it’s primarily a small circle of friends and family that I spend the most of my time with.
I also think that monitoring my consumption of media is a activity that would be beneficial. Like most, I am probably guilty of feeding the perceptions that I already have by consuming the same things over and over again, and getting the same viewpoints fed to me that reinforces the loop. Reaching out to other places could be very beneficial to help fill in some of those gaps and understanding a variety of different people. I like their suggestion of social media as a easy, quick place to access people very different than you, and hear their stories and experiences in order to help understand others more broadly.