Our brains are designed to blend with the group, for safety and survival.
The evolutionary challenge is to engage volition to empower the individual.
To live with the principle of self-ownership.
In practice, it’s easy to slip into conformity (even small doses of it).
It’s easy to choose needs for comfort, belonging, and ease when you are with a group of people (be it 4 people or 400).
But as a result, we sacrifice needs for honesty, authenticity, and self-esteem.
The win-win is to get all of the above needs met.
You can be comfortable in your own skin.
You can know that you’re enough and you belong, just as you are.
Speak your truth.
Group Trap
