Stereotypes- Do exactly what they don’t expect from you.

Abhijeet Anand
3 min readApr 6, 2020

If you have ever been stereotyped or know people great at stereotyping, here are three ways you can handle it well the next time: Face, respond and learn.

Picture from Quillette.

In an executive meeting, a senior professional looks into my eyes feeling challenged. Baffled seeing me glare back at him, comments, “aren’t you from Bihar?” I responded, “yes I am. So?”. He continued that he knows…

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Abhijeet Anand

A people’s engineer living on a mission to empower lives through productivity hacks and upskilling. Loves writing, adventure sports and telling stories.