The Importance Of Nonconformity Decisions

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“Well I 'm damned if I do, damned if I don 't.” It’s an expression that get said to quit so often. Sometimes those thoughts are still what people say when they walk into a situation and or have made a decision. Every day we make thousands, if not millions, of decisions most of them come on the spots. For a lot of these decisions, they are made in fractions of a second. We as a society make decisions that are often based off of other people 's expectations. We make decisions to be popular, to be famous, to be liked, to make money, to be accepted and the list goes on.
Within a twenty four hour period making of nonconformity behavior decisions wasn 't very difficult except for a few categories. Myself I’ve lived a very nonconformity lifestyle
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I choose to shower and brush my teeth because I don’t like to smell my own odor. In my experience, I tend to believe that I was myself during this experience throughout the whole 24 hours. Every decision that I was calculated and wasn’t something that was always too heavily accepted. The only thing that was different for me was the fact that during the day of nonconformity I really wanted to be a more physical interaction with my hands when engaging in opposite sex.
The only other issue with that would be that if the interaction with the opposite sex was unwarranted then I 'll be in trouble. Knowing the consequences of those actions I didn 't think it was wise to engage in that part of nonconformity. Some psychological factors that prevent me from fully being my nonconformity self is a fact that other people’s feelings may be affected by my decisions. Sometimes the things that might feel good to me might not be the best for someone else and so on and so
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Are some of the biggest issues that we have as a society is we fall into social roles that that has powerful effect on us. We internalize Rose that tells us how to act on a first date or new job and how to think. We conform to our surroundings without even thinking. Reverse role give us an idea into completing the opposite of what is normal in society. Myers book on social psychology emphasizes that Role come in pairs such as parents and child teachers and student and doctors and patience. Reverse roles help us to get understanding what the other faces in the decision-making

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