342: Conformity vs. The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (with Jake Desyllas)
School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation
English - March 09, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 331 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education homeschooling unschooling school alternatives self-directed learning critical thinking media literacy indoctrination Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jake Desyllas recently invited me on The Voluntary Life Podcast to discuss conformity. 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
Look Closer:
Jake's Site: The Voluntary Life - http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/
Asch conformity experiments - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
Solomon Asch: Opinions and Social Pressure (1955) - http://www.panarchy.org/asch/social.pressure.1955.html
Milgram experiment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Neurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation - http://www.darkcoding.net/research/Berns%20Conformity%20final%20printed.pdf
Jake Desyllas on School Sucks Podcast - http://schoolsucksproject.com/tag/jake-desyllas/
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