09.10.2021
Today we return to your inbox to spark some fires for the weekend.
Not this kind
This kind
October marks Global Diversity Awareness Month – an effort to raise awareness about diversity in all its, well, diverse forms. In our very first Diversity and Expansiveness Memo, we outlined a vision for the role we see Diversity playing – not just at Bettr – but in our lives. We also motivated for Expansiveness over the popularized Inclusion, to hold ourselves accountable to opening up our worlds and growing with it. In short, we initiated a process of defining our own vocabulary and vision for embracing diversity as a core driver of a life well lived and job well done, and we committed ourselves to the deep work of it all.
These letters are just one small part of that work. The real work of embracing and building for diversity is in the learning and the doing, and it's up to each and every one of us to get up and ask ourselves:
How committed am I to diversifying my world? How willing am I to examine my position in it?
On gender discrimination: a scene from the iconic 2016 biopic, Hidden Figures
If it is going to be done properly, it must be understood that the greatest part of this work is deeply personal. We do this not because it is trending or profitable to do so – or because some random calendar* tells us that it's Diversity Month – but because we'd be limiting our own worth and potential impact by being anything less than open-minded.
So, getting straight to it, here are 3 ideas, 2 concepts and 1 question around how to balance learning fast with learning well in order to turn diversity from a glorified KPI to a daily practice of continuous growth. 🧨
*P.S. Whoever allocates these awareness months is a mystery to be solved another time. We're just glad we don't need a special month to be committing to expanding our worlds 🙃