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Doing social justice work of any kind, whether it's in our homes with their families or out in the world causes us to encounter uncomfortable feelings like confusion, shame, guilt, and overwhelm. But, according to Dolly Chugh, the author of a powerful new book, A More Justice Future, it isn't a problem to have those emotions; it's more a question of what should we do with them? Join the conversation with Dolly to gain insights into our wired-in biases, our natural emotional responses to reckoning with a painful past and present, and science-backed tools to use our responses more skillfully to build a more just future.\xa0\n\nAbout Dolly Chugh:\xa0\nDr. Dolly Chugh is an award-winning social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business where she studies bounded ethicality, or what she calls the psychology of good people. In 2018, she delivered a popular TED talk, \u201cHow to Let Go of Being a Good Person and Become a Better Person.\u201d She is the author of The Person You Mean to Be, which offered the argument that the more we believe we are already good people, the harder it is to become better people. And her new book, which we are here to discuss, is A More Justice Future.\n\nListen and Learn:\n\nThe power of learning to pronounce one another\u2019s names\n\nThe paradox of the narrative around American pioneers, like the Laura Ingalls Wilder family\n\nThe value of being a lifelong \u201cunlearner\u201d\n\nHow principles from acceptance and commitment therapy can help us reckon with the past\n\nHow to unhook from the dominant cultural narratives to capture greater accuracy and more helpful nuance\n\nHow studies of home team bias and group identity in sports help us understand that bias is wired into us as part of being human\n\nHow Dolly understands the controversy around Critical Race Theory\n\nDifferent narratives around history, and what are the most useful kinds of narratives to adopt.\n\nWhat is a paradox mindset and how to practice having one\n\nHow stories we tell about our history problematically obscure how change happens\n\nThe power of a growth mindset in doing social justice work\n\nHow to build more nuance into some of our cultural fables (and why we should)\xa0\n\nThe fable of Dolly's own life that she's worked to introduce nuance into\n\n\nResources:\n\nDolly\u2019s website\n\n\nA More Justice Future, by Dolly Chugh\n\n\nThe Person You Mean to Be, by Dolly Chugh\n\nDolly\u2019s TEDx Talk, How to Let Go of Being a Good Person and Become a Better Person\xa0\n\n\nRelated Episodes\n\nEpisode 200: Growing Grit with Angela Duckworth\n\nEpisode 234. The Power of Us with Dominic Packer\n\nEpisode 256. Social Justice Parenting with Tracy Baxley\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices