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5 Questions For Team Leaders To Challenge Willful Blindness And Create An Open Culture
Willful blindness is a cognitive bias that explains ‘the deliberate avoidance of knowledge of the facts.’
if there’s information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you’re willfully blind. You have chosen not to know.
What Harm Might We Cause
Just recently, I learned of a school leader pushing the idea of learning styles. They used the flawed concept and strategies to frame student needs.
Readings and examples that explained the issue were ignored. They chose not to know.
Ideology powerfully masks what, to the uncaptivated mind, is obvious, dangerous, or absurd and there’s much about how, and even where, we live that leaves us in the dark. Fear of conflict, fear of change keeps us that way.
Every minute counts with students; that is why these mental models are essential. We have to peer into our gloomy thinking shadows and ask:
