CONFORMITY

IMPACT
My Millennial (Non)Vote
By Christopher Witte, Contributor
Writer and Millennial
POLITICS
The Great American Spin Machine
By Eli Zaretsky, Contributor
Author of Why America needs a Left, Secrets of the Soul, Polit...
If one simply assents to the anti-Trump verities today one will later find oneself powerless to resist the new wars, the new power grabs, the new forms of debt-bondage, which follow inevitably in Clinton's wake. The sad fate of Bernie Sanders makes this clear. Resist now or you will forever lose your voice.
GPS FOR THE SOUL
What Does It Mean to Be 'You'?
By Anthony Meindl, Contributor
Artistic Director of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop
But sometimes I grapple with what being "yourself" means. Especially since we do everything in our power to not be.
HEALTHY LIVING
Dare to Dream
By Josh Legere, Contributor
Blogger, motivational writer, all around nice guy.
You are unique. We all are. We are the product of our upbringing, our experiences and our friends and families. We think differently and act independently of everyone else. Then we go to school. Then we go to work.
BUSINESS
You Really Should Think for Yourself. Just Sayin.
By Shawn Hunter, Contributor
President & Founder of www.Mindscaling.com | Speaker & Writer ...
POLITICS
Democracy, Diversity, Dissent and Human Rights Necessitate Freedom of Expression and Assembly
By Noam Schimmel, Contributor
Ph.D London School of Economics. Masters of International Huma...
ENTERTAINMENT
The Goblin King Is Dead, Long Live the Goblin King: An Elegy for David Bowie
By Sezin Koehler, Contributor
Author, Crime Rave and American Monsters, contri...
I can absolutely trace back my fascination with beautiful white boys and their pretty faces, especially the ones who weren't afraid of eyeliner and nail polish, directly to David Bowie in Labyrinth.
GPS FOR THE SOUL
Breaking the Bonds of Conformity
By Rebecca Mckown, Contributor
Mindset and transformational coach, Akashic Records Practition...
COLLEGE
How a Trans Best Friend Changed My Outlook on Life
By Connor R. McLaren, Contributor
Recent graduate of The University of Pennsylvania. Deaf, gay a...
We have all done things in life that we regret and are not proud of. I am no exception. Sometimes you get a do over--and sometimes you don't.
COLLEGE
Does the Ivy League Breed Excellent Sheep?
By Jason Choi, Contributor
Student entrepreneur, Wharton School of Business
Ambitious Millennials love to dream. The dreams may be ambitious, they may be big and they may even be lucrative, but there is no saying that they cannot be all at once - in other words, be quite excellent.
COLLEGE
Conformity Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M)
By Caslee Sims, Contributor
Student at North Carolina State University. 1906.
Whatever you decide to do, consider if your reasons justify your actions. Before unconsciously adopting everyone else's principles, ask yourself is it really worth it to be unoriginal or is this against your personal code of morality.
FIFTY
Why Being 'Respectable' Is Overrated
By Joe Seldner, Contributor
Journalist/Producer
Respectability takes many forms. When you grow up a certain way, it's expected that you'll travel a certain path: serve on boards, go to cocktail parties, attend important conferences, maybe even give a TED talk if you really have made it (after all, what could possibly be more important?) I grew up on that path, but deviated from it, first because of circumstances, then by choice.
GPS FOR THE SOUL
Stirring the Pot of Skateboarding Mainstream Culture
By Tajci Cameron , Contributor
Award winning music artist, published author, host of TV show ...
SCIENCE
The Perils of Adolescence
By Wray Herbert, Contributor
Author, 'On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired...
For decades the common wisdom of parenting manuals was that teenagers feel invulnerable, immortal, and simply perceive less peril in dicey situations and believe they have much more control than they actually do. In short, they underestimate life's very real risks and dangers. But scientists who study adolescent decision making now dispute this common parenting wisdom.
HEALTHY LIVING
Peer Pressure Affects Your Decisions And Purchases More Than You Think
By Alena Hall
HEALTHY LIVING
Dancing to Our Own Beat
By Ayelet Baron, Contributor
Author. Speaker.
The world we live in today is open. Yet most people still have the same conversations with the same people and wonder why nothing changes. It is those who don't want to be like everyone else who are often misunderstood by a society where conformity is the norm.
COLLEGE
Fellow Law Students, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By Michael Shammas, Contributor
Lawyer, freelancer, writer
Resist the tide. Leave law school not as an attorney, but rather as a human being who happens to be an attorney.
POLITICS
The Surprising Thing I Found When I Compared Liberal And Conservative Attitudes About Obedience to Authority
By Jeremy Frimer, Contributor
Professor of Psychology
I set out to test whether liberals favor obedience to authority just like conservatives do.
PARENTS
Whose Terms Are Those, Anyway?
By Devishobha Ramanan, Contributor
Founder and Editor @ www.kidskintha.com
Some of us meet the world's expectations only to realize that it failed to give us the fulfillment we sought within ourselves; some of us burnout mid-way trying to fulfill them; some of us realize that there has to be another way to find what we truly seek.
HEALTHY LIVING
The Hidden Cost of Fitting In
By Linda Bloom LCSW and Charlie Bloom MSW, Contributor
Bestselling Authors and Relationship Experts
Many of us spend our lives twisting ourselves into shapes and postures that are unnatural and uncomfortable in hopes of gaining acceptance from others whose approval we desire. We may contort ourselves into shapes that are entirely unnatural for us.
WOMEN
I Was Tired Of Pressure To Get Married, So I Started A Mannequin Family
By Suzanne Heintz, Contributor
Performance Artist, Photographer, Satirist
It was getting late. Seriously late for a woman my age not to have a ring on her finger. People said, "You're such a nice girl, why aren't you married?" But then, I found a way. I bought a beautiful family... of mannequins.
QUEER VOICES
Coming Out for Marriage Equality in Japan
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney, Contributors
Coming out appears to be particularly difficult for many Japanese LGBT people because of the importance of social conformity in Japan. Many college students told us that they had known perhaps only one openly LGBT person in their entire lives.
BUSINESS
7 Sneaky Influence Tactics You Never Saw Coming
By Adam Grant, Contributor
Wharton professor and author of GIVE AND TAKE and ORIGINALS
What if we didn't let them get away with it? Next time someone uses one of these techniques on you, I hope you'll be more likely to recognize it, and resist.
RELIGION
Reunions, Privilege, and Growing Up on the Wrong Side of the River
By Derek Penwell, Contributor
Author; Editor; Speaker; Activist
Although we'd be reluctant to say it out loud, people of privilege tend to believe that we are what the rest of the world would want to be if they knew what was good for them.
BUSINESS
6 Reasons Why I Hate the Term 'Personal Brand'
By Jill Knapp, Contributor
Author with HarperCollins
It seemed impossible to constantly live your life on brand. The sheer pressure and conformity of it all reminds me way too much of trying to be popular in high school.
QUEER VOICES
We're Not All the Same: Embracing Individuality
By Troy Roness, Contributor
Eating Disorder / LGBT Advocate, Speaker & Writer
It's unfortunate that gay men with an unhealthy body image can ultimately hurt our shared commitment to individuality and the wider perception of our community. We have failed to challenge the many reasons that we suffer with an unhealthy preoccupation with the physical.
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