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(#211) Your Brain Is Lying to You About Other People
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We’re All More Complicated Than Our Labels
What happens when we decide who someone is before we actually know them?
In this episode of Kyle Talks, I share a story from my time working as a cashier at Target during the 2020 election. A customer began talking to me about politics and made some pretty strong assumptions about the kind of people who supported Donald Trump.
There was just one problem: she had no idea she was talking to one.
The experience stuck with me—not because of the politics, but because of what it revealed about how easily we can create stories about entire groups of people based on assumptions, stereotypes, and our own beliefs.
We break the conversation down into four parts:
1. The Story — What happened at that Target checkout line.
2. The Issue — Why we so often make assumptions about people we don't actually know.
3. The Thoughts — What this says about political disagreement, human judgment, and the danger of putting people into simple boxes.
4. The Solution — How we can challenge our own assumptions, stay intellectually honest, and become better at understanding people—even when we strongly disagree with them.
You don't have to agree with someone.
You don't have to like their decisions.
But maybe we should be a little more careful about deciding who they are.
Because people are almost always more complicated than the label we've given them.
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