So, what’s your measuring stick for people? Do they need to be a certain color? Do they need to drive a certain vehicle? Do they need to have a certain type of degree?<\/p>\n
I suppose human bias is a fact of being human. It’s in us and there’s no way around it. But like emotions it’s not good or bad, just what we do with it. I’m biased toward positive people and I also know that it’s not always possible to be around them 100% of the time. The discipline I need is life management. Life management teaches me the art of dealing with each situation as it comes my way.<\/p>\n
If the people you meet, or have known for some time, have to meet a vague mental checklist, you’re in trouble. Bigotry, arrogance and stunted mental growth are formed out of this approach.\u00a0Insecurity is the culprit for those using a measuring stick that excludes certain types of people. When we deal with our insecurities, we begin to see people from a different set of lenses.<\/p>\n
The best measuring stick is the unconditional<\/strong> one. Unconditional allows you to embrace real diversity and not lose your own identity in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n The choice is yours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, what’s your measuring stick for people? Do they need to be a certain color? Do they need to drive a certain vehicle? Do they need to have a certain type of degree? I suppose human bias is a fact of being human. It’s in us and there’s no way around it. But like emotions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1856,82],"tags":[128,279,823,180,1615,1614,1616,1617],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-life-management","category-relationships","tag-choices","tag-culture","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-judging-people","tag-measuring-stick","tag-mental-checklist","tag-unconditional-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}