Dr. Maya Shankar

And what's so interesting about her story, she ends up getting amnesia as a result of a biking accident.

And she loses so many of her memories.

And so the slate is wiped clean and she has to revisit all of these new memories that are resurfacing in her brain after the injury anew.

And gosh, I love the story so much because what happens is when her family stories are

start coming back to her one by one, she has not remembered at this moment that she had deep shame around those stories.

When they rush back to her, she thinks, oh my God, these stories are incredible.

They're so filled with delight and they make me feel a sense of nostalgia and a desire to go back home.

I love these stories.

They are incredible.

I need to share them with everyone I know.

No one had heard, by the way, of these stories.

And her boyfriend hadn't heard about them.

None of her friends in the United States had heard about them.

And so she starts sharing them liberally.

And only a few weeks later does the memory resurface that she had once been ashamed of those stories.

But it was too late.

She had already made up her mind without all those biases that she had been carrying for so long about

the incredible beauty that was stored within her rich cultural heritage.

And I share this because it's a wonderful reminder that none of the beliefs we carry are these sacred, immutable truths about the world.

They're just things that we kind of come up with at some point.