## How to practice cognitive multiculturalism Cognitive multiculturalism gives you the mental agility to better navigate workplace dynamics, understand global events, or simply connect with people different from yourself. And you don’t need to move abroad or learn a new language. You just need to intentionally diversify three things: | | |---| || **1. Your inputs.** That includes books, media, and ideas. Don’t just stick to your comfort zone. Read authors from different eras, geographies, or disciplines. Choose media that challenges your assumptions rather than confirms them. Each new way of thinking you encounter expands your cognitive map. **2. Your people.** Expand and mix up your social circles by seeking out relationships across generations, professions, and backgrounds. Each person will offer a different mental model of the world, and exposure to these models will diversify your own. **3. Your identities.** Don’t limit yourself to one role. Try on different versions of yourself. Experiment with taking up hobbies, joining new communities, or working in unfamiliar environments. Notice how your behavior shifts, and use that metacognitive awareness to expand your sense of self. Most of us already cross more borders than we notice. We move between work and home, different groups of friends, different media diets. Just pay attention to those borders and push them a little further. That’s what cognitive multiculturalism really is: being deliberate about the diversity of experiences that shape how you think.