Brett Veinotte is an educator and host of School Sucks Podcast. This week I had an interesting discussion with Brett about the power of conformity and how to resist it. Topics covered include:
- How conformity to "normal" spending habits prevents people achieving financial independence
- Solomon Asch's conformity experiments and what we can learn from them
- How conformity can alter your perception
- The importance of allies in resisting conformity
- The role of privacy in reducing conformity
- The danger of conforming to a subculture (and still being a conformist)
- How exposure to different views can increase your independence of thought
- School Sucks Podcast
- School Sucks Facebook Group
- Solomon Asch Conformity Experiments
- Opinions and Social Pressure by Solomon Asch
- Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments
- Berns' study of conformity
- The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
- Doug Stanhope on Nationalism
