They’re all labels. And they’re all holding us back.
Labels invite judgement. Breed bias. Subdivide us into cultural siloes that keep us from more deeply connecting, to ourselves and each other. But beneath these designations lives a you that can’t be labeled. A one-of-a-kind energetic cocktail of driving passions, innate talents, abiding truths, and oddball quirks. This is your individual human nature. The youiest version of you. And when you free yourself from all the labels the world has saddled you with, you can find it. Own it. Use it to build stronger careers, communities and cultures. You were born to be more than a series of labels. We all were.
How to Step Out of the Labels That Divide Us and Into the Humanity That Unites Us
Before even being born, we are labeled by gender. And from that moment on, the labels keep coming - superficially categorizing us by everything from where we live and who we love to how we vote and the color of our skin. Every one of these labels is systematically dividing us. Separating us into camp after camp. Focusing us more and more on our differences. And putting a stranglehold on our ability to understand all we are individually and all we are meant to be collectively. This book is dedicated to breaking that stranglehold. It exposes the ways our cultural labels mislead us. Explores how they are used to manipulate us. And excavates the depth and strength that awaits when we stop allowing ourselves to be categorized and start insisting we be recognized for the unique human nature we possess.
