Don’t judge me!
Sorry. Can’t help it.
We’re designed to judge each other; it’s for our safety and survival.
Our brains make rapid-fire decisions about what we see based on past experience, learned and lived. We tell ourselves (in a split second), we’re more likely survive if we partner with those people, instead of those people.
Ironically, this proclivity toward likeness is what divides us.
You can’t stop judging; you’re human.
But you can train yourself to notice when you’re doing that judging thing and then step back to reevaluate.
It’s that 2-second pause that will save us.
It’s the space for growth, a tiny little Hobbit door to the other side, appearing out of nowhere and all too often overlooked.
But it’s there.
Pause, step through, and we all live.