Value in Diversity of Thought

I have rheumatoid arthritis that the public doesn’t know. So, I have days where I can’t bend my wrist. See, I can’t even bend my wrist, this is a far as I can bend my wrist, and I can’t even type. My team knows, there’s certain days, I literally can’t even touch a keyboard, because my rheumatism is acting up so bad.

And so, that’s diversity too, because I have to think about processes, and protocol, and when I do a touch base, where it’s not dependent, on being able. And so, I say that for leaders, is because I think in America, especially those watching, we think about it through one lens, I think we have to think about it as a super broad lens.

Even another one is philosophical diversity. People don’t realize that Boba Guys is built really about—our mission is to bridge cultures. But the biggest bridge is philosophy. Anybody who studies religion and philosophy will realize that in the world, the biggest bridge, and the biggest divide is actually not race and class, it’s actually philosophy.

It’s the idea that, and I think the biggest divide is East meets West. Which is, Eastern philosophy is all about collective. In America is all about individualism, it’s all about personal freedoms, and all that stuff. Well, you can’t convince people to wear a mask and take vaccines, is because you don’t think about the collective.

So, Boba Guys is this hybrid between the two, and I’m a product of a collectivist society, and an individualist society. So, I think that’s diversity, but Americans don’t think of that as diversity. I’m like, yeah, it is, because it’s the fact that you…

Yeah, it’s diversity of thoughts and experience.

Yeah.