My friend Rick Middleton, founder of the Los Angeles-based communication company Executive Expression, uses the GGNEE model to describe how we put people in mental boxes before we even know them. Rick says that without realizing it, we categorize people instantly in the following sequence: Gender Generation (age) Nationality (or ethnicity) Education Level Emotion The sequence goes in this order because we see a person’s gender, generation, and nationality first, hear the person’s education level second, and feel the person’s level of emotionality third. Keep the GGNEE model in mind, and it’ll
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