Press & Praise for Breaking Bias
Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, Axiom Book Award Gold Medalist, and International Book Award and Non-Obvious Book Award recipient, selected by the Next Big Idea Club, Maria Shriver, and featured in the Harvard Business Review, INC., NDTV, TIME, WGN9 Chicago, and more!
“I identify myself with this thinking and am sure many would benefit from such an approach. As we all belong to our big human family and since interdependence is part of our reality, a sense of oneness of humanity is crucial for all of us. I commend the author and hope this book would help people to come closer to one another through breaking biases on the basis of secondary differences like race, religion, rich or poor that divide us.”
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, global advocate for compassion, and co-founder of the Mind & Life Institute
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Praise for Breaking Bias
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Dan Harris
NYT best-selling Author of 10% Happier and host of the Ten Percent Happier Podcast
“Your biases can hurt other people, but they can also hurt you. They can damage your relationships and degrade your decision-making. But the good news is: they’re not your fault, and they can be addressed. Anu is the perfect guide to transform all biases in the modern world.”
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The Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD
Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, the world’s most diverse & inclusive Christian congregation, author of Fierce Love and advocate for racial equality, economic justice, and LGBTQIA+ equality.
“Breaking Bias uniquely captured me and would not let me go…Anu's kindness accompanies the reader on a journey informed by the depth and breadth of his experience, research, wisdom, compassion and hope…A must read for all who yearn for a more just society.”
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Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
NYT best-selling author of Unwinding Anxiety and The Craving Mind and Professor of Medicine at Brown University
“A tour de force! Part history lesson, part personal science experiment, part toolkit, this book brings together deep wisdom with practical skills to help us all learn how to move out of our conditioned biases and into a new, more connected way of relating to each other. A must read!”
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Deepa Purushothaman
Best-selling author of The First, The Few, The Only, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, and Retired Managing Partner at Deloitte
“Breaking Bias will radically shift your perspective on the power structures around you while drawing you a new map of the world. This book inspires change and creates a new vision where isolation and exclusion can be replaced by connection and belonging.”
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Tara Brach, PhD
Meditation Teacher, Psychologist, Podcast host, and best-selling author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge,
“Evolving beyond the biases that separate us is the core task of humanity if we are to meet the existential challenges that face us…Breaking Bias offers a powerful set of mindfulness-based tools to help us dismantle conscious and unconscious bias and repair the horrific harms it has caused. This timely book is a beacon of hope in our precious, hurting world.”
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Valarie Kaur
Best-selling author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project
“Masterful, practical, and wise, Breaking Bias is essential reading….Learn how to dismantle systems of oppression, embrace the worth of all beings, and build a world of belonging...This book will inspire you to a life of Revolutionary Love. Anu Gupta is a guiding light, and this book is his radiant offering.”
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Rha Goddess
Founder & CEO of Move The Crowd and Author of The Calling
“With sacred practices, thoughtful data and a deep reverence for life, Breaking Bias helps us bring greater understanding to the learned and often painful attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that separate us from ourselves and each other. We can do better. And this timely and crucial book shows us the way.”
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Sharon Salzberg
Co-founder of Insight Meditation Society (IMS) and best-selling author of Lovingkindness and Real Life
“Compassionate, vulnerable, and mind-expanding, Breaking Bias is a powerful guidebook to deepen our understanding of bias and how to break the cycle…Anu sparks individual awakening for collective change. This book is an invitation to join the movement towards a world celebrating our diversity and honoring our inherent belonging.”
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Susan Davis
Founding President & CEO of BRAC USA and co-author of Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know
“Breaking Bias might be the most important book you read in the 21st century…Everyone in a position of power, authority, or influence needs this book and it is a required reading for any social entrepreneur or aspiring changemaker anywhere in the world.”
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Pádraig Ó Tuama
Host of Poetry Unbound from On Being Studios and author of Poetry Unbound
“Anu Gupta explores crises of human interrelationality at the level of the soul: questions that prompt deep reflection, and offer avenues for even deeper relationships. Doing so as a friend, a teacher, and a scientist, his approach is one that envisions flourishing for all. This helpful and necessary book is a balm.”
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Dr. Larry Ward
Senior teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition, author America's Racial Karma, and co-author of Love's Garden, A Guide To Mindful Relationships
“What a gift! Breaking Bias is a call to all of us to grow up to our potential and down to our depths. This is more than a book. It is a beautiful witness to our inherent possibilities and a guide to the transformation that can save us from ourselves.”
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Kamilah Majied, MSW, PhD
Professor, Therapist, Advocate, and author of Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights For Liberated Living
“Breaking Bias is a triumph! … Gupta offers a comprehensive historical overview of bias with clear articulations of how bias shapes inequity in social organizational, national and international policies. This book is a must read!”
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Barbara Becker
Author of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
“Anu Gupta is a professional bias breaker…Yes, he’s a master teacher. Yes, he will expertly guide readers through a breadth of impressive knowledge and actionable steps rooted in neuroscience…But most importantly, Anu is an unfailingly kind friend who genuinely wants the best for all of us. How lucky are we to have Breaking Bias in our hands?”
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Janet Dewart Bell, PhD
Professor, Racial Justice Advocate, and author of Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement and Blackbirds Singing
“Breaking Bias is a landmark achievement…Building on his incredibly diverse lived experience, Anu Gupta has given us a wonderful book, full of passion, hope, and, yes, love—backed by meticulous research and searing analyses. A timely book, but also one for the ages.”
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Joseph Goldstein
Co-founder of Insight Meditation Society (IMS) and author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
“In Breaking Bias, Anu Gupta's clarity and open-heartedness invite us to reflect on the great suffering caused by racial, gender, and all forms of stereotypes, to understand more fully their religious, social and economic underpinnings, and to explore ways of freeing ourselves from these deeply conditioned patterns…Highly recommended!”
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Danielle Conway
Dean and Law Professor at Penn State Dickinson Law and Executive Director of Antiracist Development Institute (ADI)
“Anu Gupta's Breaking Bias is a major contribution in its focus on locating the roots of identity-based biases and the inequities that flow from them...Through this book, readers will be engaged in a process of co-creation of a more inclusive, more just, and more fair society through organic, positive paradigm shifts in culture and community.”
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Jorge Fontanez
CEO, B Lab U.S. & Canada
“This book will equip you with the necessary insights to lead with compassion and integrity. It serves as an urgent call to introspection and bold leadership aimed at forging a more just and equitable society…Breaking Bias marks an achievement in the work of antiracism and a world without bias, and I see it as a vital text for anyone wanting to interrogate bias and lead with greater compassion, love and courage.”
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Sebene Selassie
Diversity & Meditation Expert ant author of You Belong
“In Breaking Bias, Anu Gupta offers us a powerful and accessible overview of both the roots of our species' prejudices and the actions we must take to free ourselves from them once and for all…Anu's relatable stories of his own journey makes this sometimes challenging material a joy to read. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic pathway for breaking bias, and Anu is an expert guide through this vital journey.”
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Manoj Dias
Author of Still Together and co-founder of OPEN
“In a time where the world feels more divided than ever before, Breaking Bias is an urgent antidote to the confusion and suffering of modern life. Offering wisdom rooted in science and contemplative practice I genuinely believe this book can transform those that come into contact with its message.”
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Kaira Jewel Lingo
Meditation Teacher and author of We Were Made for These Times and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation
“This is the best articulation that I have read of what bias is, how it comes to be and how it can be ended. Practicing this now is essential…so we can bring about lasting freedom and wellbeing for ourselves and our world. This is required reading for all of us!”
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Koshin Paley Ellison
Zen teacher, co-founder of Zen Center for Contemplative Care and author of Untangled
“Anu Gupta's Breaking Bias is a rigorous and expansive investigation of a human tangle and illness—assumption and bias. I am grateful for Anu's innovative antidote of PRISM, a pragmatic and heartening medicine to confront and transform the root causes of bias. Let's take the medicine together.”
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Cheryl Dorsey
President of Echoing Green, the leading network of social entrepreneurs globally
“Whether you're a seasoned social entrepreneur or an aspiring changemaker, this book offers invaluable wisdom and inspiration to navigate the complexities of bias and social impact work. Let Anu's insights empower you to drive positive change in your communities and beyond, transforming bias into opportunity and paving the way for a more equitable and just world.”
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Douglas Abrams
Co-author of international bestseller The Book of Joy and executive producer of Mission Joy: Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
“Anu shares a profound journey to breaking bias that we deeply need to free ourselves and our society from the ancient neural reflexes of our tribal past. This inner and outer journey is one that could not be more timely and more important for creating the world we carry in our hearts.”
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Ananta Ripa Ajmera
Award-winning, best-selling author of The Way of the Goddess and The Ayurveda Way and founder of The Ancient Way
“Breaking Bias is a powerful invitation to examine our subconscious attitudes, beliefs and conditioning, and to finally rewrite the stories we have told about ourselves and others, to embrace a more inclusive and loving world that comes about when we become the change we seek.”
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