Celebrate diversity, individuality, authenticity. Question the group. Risk being more fully ourselves.

“It feels risky to stand out but, like with most things, the more you do it the easier it feels. It’s important to push and stretch ourselves in life. If we don’t expect much from ourselves we can stagnate. But expectations need to be realistic – our own expectations and other peoples’ expectations of us.

Disappointing people can actually be very humanizing  It can give those we disappoint the opportunity to realise that their demands might not be reasonable.

So I’m throwing open an invitation to consider some of the things we conceal about ourselves in order to conform – activities, beliefs, preferences,  physical characteristics – that violate no-one – but for some reason we submit to a perceived consensus that they’re unacceptable.

What kinds of fears lie behind our conformity on these things? Are these judgments rational?”

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Taken from: Youtube “conformity” video posted by TheraminTrees

Also see: The Miligram Experiment –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdb20gcc_Ns

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