Photo By Ronald Wolf | On April 2, 2021, Dr. Dolly Chugh addressed the leadership audience during an Office...... read more read more
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Fighting bias is especially important for the Army, which has programs, training, and initiatives such as Project Inclusion. There are extremism stand downs and required training in prevention of sexual harassment and assault. The goal is to make the Army a better place for all Solders.
Dr. Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, lead a virtual leadership discussion of her book — “The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias” — which addresses what to do about difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice. Her goal with the book is to provide you with tools and guidance to make yourself, and hopefully the world around you, a better place.
Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle, The Army Surgeon General, thanked Chugh for joining Army Medicine and leading a leadership discussion. “We have read your book,” he said. “Everyone is raving about your work.” Your book, he said, ties into the Army stand down on extremism.
“The Person You Mean To Be” is included on a number of professional reading lists and is highly recommended by business and other leaders. Chugh discussed being goodish on a TED Talk that was rated one of that year’s most popular talks.
Chugh was asked what motivated her to write her book. She said I view this as a “guidebook to showing up as your best self or best teammate.”
She mentioned that as a professor she had sometimes misjudged African-American students or not noticed sexism in some assigned writings for her classes. She used this as an example of not showing up as her “best self.”
Chugh said, “I study the psychology of good people.”
She said there is research that can help us be our best selves. She decided to consolidate some information into her book and “weave together some real-world story-telling of people grappling and learning and making mistakes” that bring them up short of their being the optimal teammate.
She then led a discussion and later invited questions.
“I think the path to being the person we mean to be is to let go of being a good person so that we can be better people and be what I call ‘goodish,’ which is not a lower standard than good. It is a higher standard — it’s about raising our standards,” Chugh said.
“As a goodish person, we are not simply accepting that I think I am a good person therefore I am,” she said. “We need to build toward being a good person every day with the same discipline that we use for our physical health and for our mental health.”
Chugh’s book describes a science-based approach that is a method any of us can put to use in all parts of our life.
Being goodish means being a work in progress, she said, it means taking ownership and accountability when we make mistakes.
Being the person we mean to be starts with a look at ourselves, Chugh said.
| Date Taken: | 04.13.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 04.13.2021 15:37 |
| Story ID: | 393689 |
| Location: | US |
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