Seabolt wants you to dream big.

They tell you that your dreams are dumb, or impossible. They say that you won't ever be president, a pilot, a fashion designer or a world renowned chef. You're just an average kid living in an average town with an average life.

So you discard those silly dreams of your future. You crumple it up and toss it in the trash, forever storing it in the depths of your mind, never to see light again. What's the point of continuing to dream about it, you can't really become a C.E.O of a company; it's just a childish dream, right? Wrong.

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Zuei examines the subject of conformity.

Have you ever suddenly noticed when you were in a group of people where they all were doing or saying something different to you? Did you feel uncomfortable about this? Did you feel an unspoken pressure to go along with the rest of the group? If so, you were simply complying with your need to conform.

Whenever we change our behavior, views, and attitudes in response to the real or imagined presence of others, we are experiencing conformity. Why we conform is a topic of great interest to social psychologists. Research has demonstrated two main types of conformity: informal and normative.

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