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How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea
Reprint: R0309J Coming up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. Entrepreneurs, sales executives, and marketing managers often go to great lengths to demonstrate how their new concepts are practical and profitable—only to be rejected by corporate decision makers who...

We all like to think that people judge us carefully and objectively on our merits. But the fact is, they rush to place us into neat little categories—they stereotype us. So the first thing to realize when you’re preparing to make a pitch to strangers is that your audience is going to put you into a box. And they’re going to do it really fast. Research suggests that humans can categorize others in less than 150 milliseconds. Within 30 minutes, they’ve made lasting judgments about your character.
Wow! That was written in 2003! Any ideas on how to find out if they have changed, or reaffirmed that FACT?
I can guarantee that a lot of the champions for Black Lives Matter will claim that they do not stereotype people, and that they are the epitome of non-judgementality, or whatever.