The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias (Summary, Reviews & Purchase Options)

What if being “good” isn’t the goal—but becoming better is the path to real change? In The Person You Mean to Be, award-winning social psychologist Dolly Chugh offers you a compassionate, evidence-based roadmap to confronting bias, championing equity, and living your values—imperfectly, but intentionally. Drawing on powerful research and personal storytelling, Chugh helps readers understand the hidden psychology behind inequality and provides practical tools to become more inclusive friends, colleagues, and community members. Whether you're navigating tough conversations, confronting your own blind spots, or figuring out where to begin, this is your call to move from willful ignorance to willful awareness. Because being a "good-ish" person—one who is always learning and growing—is the most powerful kind of ally you can be.