I’m a senior partner and there seems to
be a bit of an elephant in the room at
you know that life-changing process
where you ask tasks asked to answer life
finding questions like large what is
your greatest accomplishment or any
Chicago’s case have you ever walked on
the Isles a warehouse store like cost of
one wondered who would buy a jar of
mustard a foot and a half tall write an
essay somehow inspired by super huge
mustard 650 words now college
applications this festival we’re taking
a lot of reasons one of the reasons why
it’s stressful is that we’re supposed to
know who we are
there’s this crucial point that comes up
the reading essay after essay about who
you are when it finally comes time to
Smith you’re asked to reduce your
identity down to a checklist now the
process the plan is to be about a
holistic view of it’s a place it’s easy
to say the skills little
counterintuitive to process but the
issue here isn’t about getting into
Harvard it’s about our anxiety what I
did we have a fear of enemies and needs
to constantly simplify objects and ideas
and people and distinct categories so we
have an idea of how to treat them we
need to believe we understand people
even though we don’t so today let’s
examine how our fear of ambiguity met
best itself psychologically discover how
it has lasting impact some incisions and
interactions for redefine area and a bit
of a personal statement now the
psychological term for how we do with
our fear
categorical thinking which they call it
as Robert berry defined as their
constant tendency to group objects and
ideas and people in distinct boxes and
if you treat those groups is that they
mean something in the real world and
though categorical thinking has helped
us adapt to new environments in the past
her increasing tendency to categorize
people has become more harmful than
helpful
resulting in start-up divisions in the
way we view politics gender and race so
why do we can categorically oh
psychologist and author Robert blank
describes our categorical thinking to
biology
today’s mental energy field to look at
something and identify it with something
we’ve seen before this allows us to
interpret new information efficiently
allowing us to react more complete
Stargardt’s see one face of the threat
it doesn’t make much sense to say do you
think that 300 come free and already
towards affair I don’t know it’s almost
a little different
and although categorical thinking is
nearly universal it’s still socially
constructed and there’s something each
one of us should take responsibility for
so how does our fear of ambiguity end up
Harvick’s well categorical thinking
encloses us within our communities
surrounding us people who look think and
act just like us approach a recent study
conducted at Yale and UCSD we become
friends with people who are disturbingly
genetic is similar to us making everyone
sitting at your lunch table the genetic
equivalent of your fourth cousin from
the people we make friends with the
place is in every way we’ve all enclosed
ourselves in an echo chambers of our own
making but even more troubling that the
people we surround ourselves with hubs
are
that’s on the way people go into exit
polls from the 2016 presidential
election the biggest predictor of who
would pass developer Trump more than
race gender economic status or levels of
education was a diversity of the
districts the constituents lived in
people who lived in less diverse
neighborhoods were elected over Trump
the people lived and more diverse
neighborhoods were less likely to follow
the conversation isn’t that it simple
class and stuff by categorizing things
we fail to examine that we end up
proving objects and ideas and people
distinct boxes as if they are staying
unchanging an unworthy of our attention
in short we have lost our ability to
examine and the more we categorize the
less the understand now counter-petition
is not only self-perpetuating it’s often
upheld by the very people who benefit
policewomen
categorization is often self-reinforcing
oppressing people especially minorities
to conforms writing is about the troops
they wish to pursue in order to tour and
no one knows us better the difference
who as parents face the difficult task
of raising their children in a new land
whose ideas concepts and values are also
important and all too often it’s used to
limit what aspects of their experience
they share with their children in order
to help them assimilate and the children
that immigrants bear this burden as well
often assuming valuable parts of their
culture according to the Center for
comparative immigration
studies at UCSD but the third generation
children have lost the ability to speak
language of their heritage in charter
with 72% expects and 91% of Asians
speaking English as their only language
it’s clear that this idea of the
American dream often forces us to give
up parts of ourselves in order to truly
fit but the dream comes next
what about she’s been especially
prevalent in the Asian bury the myth
modeling which tests that Asians no
longer face discrimination because
they’ve achieved economic equality by
being natural hygiene it’s pretty good
particularly in stem and while it is
true that the average Asian is good and
the average age of family is higher in
her the myth of the model minority pills
to acknowledge simple facts that Asians
are not a monolith ignore Southeast
Asians the Cambodians / nuns and monks
who placed at the bottom of the
educational degree attainment index not
all Asians have benefitted from the
bottom line argument in fact some have
had their historical oppression of
overlooked as a result at least kids who
aren’t as good at science are not
feeling like they aren’t hmm and it’s
been used the nation’s against others
minority groups says this hard-working
model of American success in framing the
lack of success of other groups like
african-americans to achieve economic
success it’s a simple product of them
not trying hard
myth of the bottle my party has asserted
that asian-americans enjoy needed
solidarity and minority nor the
superiority of the ones in power now
here and Zelda back médicos don’t have
that same experience of growing up in a
predominately black meat but just
because we live in a place where
minorities are the majority doesn’t mean
the avoid myths of identity as someone
who’s mixed-race half white and Asian I
seen firsthand how the spirit of duty
plays out in Asian American beauties
even though I could say I was part of
either community I never felt like I
truly belonged to either one and that’s
my concern because this experience isn’t
just about race it’s fundamentally about
categorical thinking growing up I wasn’t
fluent in Mandarin so I always felt a
little out of place for ages then we
gatherings where everyone else about
Chinese thankfully my cousin Mitchell
was the living version of Google
Translate so here everything our moms
and aunts were saying behind my back
now Asian parents have this reputation
for being competitive with their
children and our moms are no exception
we used to alternate between calling
Rachel 9 alpha and beta to inspire that
healthy spirit of competition among as
five girls and for the longest time I
was always called beta not because I
cried after every lesson with my brush
mechanisation larissa because Rachel was
in tears by the end of lesson two is
because the facts that I wasn’t Chinese
enough and even though this was a long
time ago the sentiment remains
and I find myself constantly traveling
with the question am I really agent if
we treat identities like countries it
can be difficult to straddle the border
between two nations at the end of the
day we’re all just looking for a place
to call home
now there’s something my grandmother
always loved to tell me about
relationships that two halves don’t make
whole pensively a while to realize it
but she’s right see the way we treat
being mixed race is that you’re always
hurt something
I am half-chinese and half white and
that one half plus one half equals one
little person the viewing identity in
this way mysteries that we will never be
fully parts of either culture we end up
treating people like fractions of whole
selves it’s time for a redefinition of
identity so we can recognize unique
power and perspective that comes with
being a part of multiple communities and
individual copy multiple identities odd
not think of themselves as fractions
okay rather of each distinct fraction
and Nicole in its own right totaling our
differences and diversity to an even
greater
we’re not professor in psychosis
rasam garland tops at 117 the disabled
body demands explanation I’d like to
expand upon that to say the marginalized
body demands explanation and variety
autumns ever been asked what are you the
sentiment is nearly familiar to think
about categorical thinking is that we’re
always asking questions and
assumptions about other people do we
ever demand that same level of
explanation from ourselves the way we
resolve our fear of ambiguity by
identifying and the beauty within
ourselves because identifying our own
multi-dimensional selves is the first
step towards doing that brothers so
before I finish today I’d like to ask
all question who are you if that is in
any way difficult for you to answer but
I think you’ve arrived the solution to
our categorical thinking problem we live
in the ambiguity of our own identities
every day we just need to learn how to live with a heavy duty a lot
be a bit of an elephant in the room at
you know that life-changing process
where you ask tasks asked to answer life
finding questions like large what is
your greatest accomplishment or any
Chicago’s case have you ever walked on
the Isles a warehouse store like cost of
one wondered who would buy a jar of
mustard a foot and a half tall write an
essay somehow inspired by super huge
mustard 650 words now college
applications this festival we’re taking
a lot of reasons one of the reasons why
it’s stressful is that we’re supposed to
know who we are
there’s this crucial point that comes up
the reading essay after essay about who
you are when it finally comes time to
Smith you’re asked to reduce your
identity down to a checklist now the
process the plan is to be about a
holistic view of it’s a place it’s easy
to say the skills little
counterintuitive to process but the
issue here isn’t about getting into
Harvard it’s about our anxiety what I
did we have a fear of enemies and needs
to constantly simplify objects and ideas
and people and distinct categories so we
have an idea of how to treat them we
need to believe we understand people
even though we don’t so today let’s
examine how our fear of ambiguity met
best itself psychologically discover how
it has lasting impact some incisions and
interactions for redefine area and a bit
of a personal statement now the
psychological term for how we do with
our fear
categorical thinking which they call it
as Robert berry defined as their
constant tendency to group objects and
ideas and people in distinct boxes and
if you treat those groups is that they
mean something in the real world and
though categorical thinking has helped
us adapt to new environments in the past
her increasing tendency to categorize
people has become more harmful than
helpful
resulting in start-up divisions in the
way we view politics gender and race so
why do we can categorically oh
psychologist and author Robert blank
describes our categorical thinking to
biology
today’s mental energy field to look at
something and identify it with something
we’ve seen before this allows us to
interpret new information efficiently
allowing us to react more complete
Stargardt’s see one face of the threat
it doesn’t make much sense to say do you
think that 300 come free and already
towards affair I don’t know it’s almost
a little different
and although categorical thinking is
nearly universal it’s still socially
constructed and there’s something each
one of us should take responsibility for
so how does our fear of ambiguity end up
Harvick’s well categorical thinking
encloses us within our communities
surrounding us people who look think and
act just like us approach a recent study
conducted at Yale and UCSD we become
friends with people who are disturbingly
genetic is similar to us making everyone
sitting at your lunch table the genetic
equivalent of your fourth cousin from
the people we make friends with the
place is in every way we’ve all enclosed
ourselves in an echo chambers of our own
making but even more troubling that the
people we surround ourselves with hubs
are
that’s on the way people go into exit
polls from the 2016 presidential
election the biggest predictor of who
would pass developer Trump more than
race gender economic status or levels of
education was a diversity of the
districts the constituents lived in
people who lived in less diverse
neighborhoods were elected over Trump
the people lived and more diverse
neighborhoods were less likely to follow
the conversation isn’t that it simple
class and stuff by categorizing things
we fail to examine that we end up
proving objects and ideas and people
distinct boxes as if they are staying
unchanging an unworthy of our attention
in short we have lost our ability to
examine and the more we categorize the
less the understand now counter-petition
is not only self-perpetuating it’s often
upheld by the very people who benefit
policewomen
categorization is often self-reinforcing
oppressing people especially minorities
to conforms writing is about the troops
they wish to pursue in order to tour and
no one knows us better the difference
who as parents face the difficult task
of raising their children in a new land
whose ideas concepts and values are also
important and all too often it’s used to
limit what aspects of their experience
they share with their children in order
to help them assimilate and the children
that immigrants bear this burden as well
often assuming valuable parts of their
culture according to the Center for
comparative immigration
studies at UCSD but the third generation
children have lost the ability to speak
language of their heritage in charter
with 72% expects and 91% of Asians
speaking English as their only language
it’s clear that this idea of the
American dream often forces us to give
up parts of ourselves in order to truly
fit but the dream comes next
what about she’s been especially
prevalent in the Asian bury the myth
modeling which tests that Asians no
longer face discrimination because
they’ve achieved economic equality by
being natural hygiene it’s pretty good
particularly in stem and while it is
true that the average Asian is good and
the average age of family is higher in
her the myth of the model minority pills
to acknowledge simple facts that Asians
are not a monolith ignore Southeast
Asians the Cambodians / nuns and monks
who placed at the bottom of the
educational degree attainment index not
all Asians have benefitted from the
bottom line argument in fact some have
had their historical oppression of
overlooked as a result at least kids who
aren’t as good at science are not
feeling like they aren’t hmm and it’s
been used the nation’s against others
minority groups says this hard-working
model of American success in framing the
lack of success of other groups like
african-americans to achieve economic
success it’s a simple product of them
not trying hard
myth of the bottle my party has asserted
that asian-americans enjoy needed
solidarity and minority nor the
superiority of the ones in power now
here and Zelda back médicos don’t have
that same experience of growing up in a
predominately black meat but just
because we live in a place where
minorities are the majority doesn’t mean
the avoid myths of identity as someone
who’s mixed-race half white and Asian I
seen firsthand how the spirit of duty
plays out in Asian American beauties
even though I could say I was part of
either community I never felt like I
truly belonged to either one and that’s
my concern because this experience isn’t
just about race it’s fundamentally about
categorical thinking growing up I wasn’t
fluent in Mandarin so I always felt a
little out of place for ages then we
gatherings where everyone else about
Chinese thankfully my cousin Mitchell
was the living version of Google
Translate so here everything our moms
and aunts were saying behind my back
now Asian parents have this reputation
for being competitive with their
children and our moms are no exception
we used to alternate between calling
Rachel 9 alpha and beta to inspire that
healthy spirit of competition among as
five girls and for the longest time I
was always called beta not because I
cried after every lesson with my brush
mechanisation larissa because Rachel was
in tears by the end of lesson two is
because the facts that I wasn’t Chinese
enough and even though this was a long
time ago the sentiment remains
and I find myself constantly traveling
with the question am I really agent if
we treat identities like countries it
can be difficult to straddle the border
between two nations at the end of the
day we’re all just looking for a place
to call home
now there’s something my grandmother
always loved to tell me about
relationships that two halves don’t make
whole pensively a while to realize it
but she’s right see the way we treat
being mixed race is that you’re always
hurt something
I am half-chinese and half white and
that one half plus one half equals one
little person the viewing identity in
this way mysteries that we will never be
fully parts of either culture we end up
treating people like fractions of whole
selves it’s time for a redefinition of
identity so we can recognize unique
power and perspective that comes with
being a part of multiple communities and
individual copy multiple identities odd
not think of themselves as fractions
okay rather of each distinct fraction
and Nicole in its own right totaling our
differences and diversity to an even
greater
we’re not professor in psychosis
rasam garland tops at 117 the disabled
body demands explanation I’d like to
expand upon that to say the marginalized
body demands explanation and variety
autumns ever been asked what are you the
sentiment is nearly familiar to think
about categorical thinking is that we’re
always asking questions and
assumptions about other people do we
ever demand that same level of
explanation from ourselves the way we
resolve our fear of ambiguity by
identifying and the beauty within
ourselves because identifying our own
multi-dimensional selves is the first
step towards doing that brothers so
before I finish today I’d like to ask
all question who are you if that is in
any way difficult for you to answer but
I think you’ve arrived the solution to
our categorical thinking problem we live
in the ambiguity of our own identities
every day we just need to learn how to live with a heavy duty a lot
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