Prejudice is a word that haunt us.

Prejudice means we think before reading people actions.

A prejudice is born when some actions are repeated, so you expect a person to behave that way, but a prejudice is also a virus.
A virus that will infect all the nearest thoughts.

In fact, prejudice spreads itself, and once it starts spreading is everywhere.

For example, you might think that a friend named Tod justify himself too much, so every time Tod speaks you think “not another justification, please”.

That’s ok, it’s prejudice.
Let Sarah, Tod’s friend, enter the room, and justify herself.

Would you think the same way?

Well… if you were with Tod probably, but in other situations maybe the thought wouldn’t cross your mind.
First problem: Prejudice stays in your mind and may affect your opinion of people who were not the target of the prejudice itself.

Now let’s consider the situation when Tod just makes a mistake, and he’s explaining.
Just explaining, or maybe sharing something with you.
We are outside the justification issue Tod has, but still our mind might be tricked in thinking “oh no, not again”.

This is not prejudice alone, some other triggers are pulled, yet the main virus was prejudice itself.

It’s not easy to judge ourself to discover how infected we are by “side-thoughts”, thoughts that weren’t in our mind but were implanted by other correlations, like prejudice itself.

Personally I found a good starting point is to take some time and think “Am I giving the same opportunities to everyone?”

There’s no way to start big. We all start small.
One breath, one line of code, one phone call

There comes a time where you feel like you already experienced someone’s else problems or life.

When they come at you with their ideas, expectations, whatever, your reply implies that you absolutely lived in their shoes, you know what they’re doing.

As a grown person, you might also say “right now you might think this, but you’ll change over time”.
It might be true, this might actually happen, but is this behaviour correct?

Should be that much arrogant to persuade another person that there’s no other way? That we are inside a tunnel no one can change?

Young people have the vision of change, the idea that the world can be changed that they can change it, while grown ups usually say try it and fail, I’ve been there

Many of us, moved by stubbornness, have tried and failed, but the idea is still there in every young man and woman, yet we always try to dissuade them from pursuing such enormous goal.

I still don’t think it’s right to dissuade people of this.
We are not talking of trying to do something illegal, we are talking about improving the world, about becoming better people.

Why in the world would you ever want someone to run away from a goal like this?
Maybe we don’t want them to succeed.

Maybe we are just scared as hell that if they succeed, we were wrong all the time, that we failed, that after all it was only us fooled by the system.

Even if they won’t succeed it’s worth if we let other people believe they can.
We should not teach the calm life that you can control while following a scheme, we should engage people into pursuing their creativity at full speed and scale, with empathy and not arrogance, with knowledge and not ignorance.

From the Facebook news feed, to the Newspapers, is there a way we can interpret information?

The scientific thought is not always present, and we can’t ask for that, so in case a news arise, what are you gonna do with it?

Are you gonna share it just reading the title?

Are you gonna read some parts alone?

Will you spend your time reading through the article and then search for deeper evidences?

Internet always empower us with choice, but in the end we lack time, so we have to make another choice, is this information something we want and care about?

If yes, then you got to decide how to handle it, if it’s worth sharing.
Sharing based on titles can’t make us better people because in that way we are just helping mass media (not the one you think) manipulate us.
We just go with the flow without understanding the reason, we don’t build a theory, a way of thinking, a point of view.

To create a point of view you must dedicate time and effort, dig deeper, learn more.

That way only you can be sure of what you are sharing.

No matter the day, the sun, or the sky, there will always be a good reason to angry.

Usually it’s about saddle information when we communicate.
Today I was angry because a developer from another company was being mad at me and was implying that it was our fault.

Well, truth is… he wasn’t implying that thing at all, and even if he did, he didn’t write it down.
The implying part was all made up by my mind.

It was my mind that, when I read the email, thought about the hidden pieces of information, he surely didn’t.

Is there an escape from this? It’s not easy, and it won’t be any better in the future but I think the main thing we can do is separate information and judgement.

We should start thinking to why a person is upset with us, we should think about the fact that it’s not about ourself, it’s about the things we do, and the things we do are not our hidden soul, they’re just our actions.

We can fail, we can threat people in the wrong way.
The most important thing is to just care, to threat people in a good way, love them, help them.

Getting angry is, as always, a waste of time.