A quick note and question.. Have you ever experienced bias?

I’ve been tossing a jumble of stuff in my head today and two words that come back to me are perspective and bias . Pretty much started over coffee this morning with Alex and Paddy.

As I made my way through shep prep ( shepherds pie of course) I was thinking about the London attack earlier in the day  and of course by the time I got to onions I was taking a deep dive in the zen of slicing and dicing.

Thinking about “Bias” I realize that my experience of  it elisits a strong response on a personal level. Like an..I’m mad as hell  moment….(ref) https://youtu.be/q_qgVn-Op7Q

So anyway,  on to mushrooms and eventually garlic .. as I’m working ( note .. I am working) I’m thinking about bias and perspective in both the universal landscape and my own personal story.  Suffice to say I will go back to my bench and think some more of course – but it strikes me that unless we choose to, as it were, walk in the other guys shoes and get their perspective, an important conversation will never happen.. let alone go anywhere.

A favorite at the airport these days are the HSBC ads like this one

“A different point of view is simply the view from a place where you’re not.”

image cited… hope thats ok with HSBC

That said.. my thoughts are with anyone who has suffered because of the perspective held  by another person, group, government, school, kitchen or nation . While the ability to have a view or perspective is likely to be the hallmark of our humaness  – Perhaps our lack of an inquiry into our own perspectives  (sic. bias)  remains our greatest ego flaw as a species.

PS.. (Dirty) Ernie .. I was writing this by the fire in the staff garden… joined by new friends.. new perspectives.. look forward to having you join us this summer! T