Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From—and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel Them
Author: ANU GUPTA Category: New Releases, Self-help ISBN: 9789366111254 Binding: Hardback Dimensions: 229X152 Number of Pages: 400
Imagine a world without bias
Imagine a world where all human beings can truly belong, just as they are, and unleash their full potential.
Take a moment to imagine how you feel in such a world. Not what you think about it, or whether you believe it’s possible, but how you feel.
This is the proposition that opens Breaking Bias. It’s your invitation to embark on an experiential journey with the power to radically change your daily life and, by extension, the world we share. Anu Gupta offers a page-turning deep dive into how bias is learned—and a strikingly original and highly effective set of tools to un-learn it.
Breaking Bias is one of the few books that go beyond examining the history of bias to offer actual training in how to reduce bias. It’s also the only book of its kind written by an author with Anu’s unique intersectional identities: a gay brown immigrant with Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu roots who is also an American lawyer and scholar of bias with two decades’ worth of research and teaching experience and lived experiences that span the globe.
Anu takes you on a deep-time journey to explore human identities and to recognize that breaking bias is the key to unlocking multiple crises in our world, from racism, sexism, and classism to burnout, loneliness, and climate change. Then he offers his signature PRISM toolkit—a set of contemplative tools grounded in Buddhist wisdom and backed by science—to help you dismantle learned bias within yourself and in the world around you, moment by moment
ANU GUPTA
ANU GUPTA is an educator, lawyer, scientist, meditation teacher, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu. His work has reached over 300 organizations, training more than 80,000 professionals, impacting over 30 million lives. As a gay immigrant of color, he came to the work of breaking bias after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias is learned—and can be un-learned—helped lead him out of that dark point and inspired a lifelong mission to build a global movement for social healing based on principles of mindfulness and compassion. He has written and spoken extensively, including on the TED stage, the Oprah Conversation, Fast Company, and Newsweek. Anu received his JD from NYU Law, MPhil in international development from Cambridge, and BA from NYU in international relations and Islamic studies. He has lived and worked across the globe and currently resides in New York City with his partner. Website: anuguptany.com