Random the Book

Questions for you:

• How much of who I am results from random early experiences rather than deliberate choices?
• What assumptions or preferences do I hold that might trace back to chance encounters or arbitrary childhood exposure?
• Do I give appropriate weight to the role of luck in my own development when judging others?

Questions for your organisation:

• How do we account for the random variations in people’s backgrounds when evaluating performance or potential?
• Are our hiring and promotion processes inadvertently favouring those who had lucky early exposures?
• Do we create opportunities to level the playing field for those who lacked fortunate early experiences?

Further reading

Bisaz, Travaglia and Alberini: The neurobiological bases of memory formation: from physiological conditions to psychopathology
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4246028/