What techniques do other posters, here on LessWrong, use to monitor and counter these [conformity] effects in their lives?
Do something conspicuous, bizarre, and inconsequential, to establish yourself as a noncomformist, then take advantage of the self-consistency effect and the social expectation that you will continue to be weird. For example, I sometimes wear a cloak.
Do something conspicuous, bizarre, and inconsequential, to establish yourself as a noncomformist, then take advantage of the self-consistency effect and the social expectation that you will continue to be weird. For example, I sometimes wear a cloak.