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How To Stop Thinking Like Everybody Else

Advice for being a freethinker when thinking comes at a cost

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Brock Covington
Dec 12, 2023
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We like to imagine ourselves as freethinkers. We wear our perceived freedom like a badge of honor gleaming on our chest — signaling to the world that we are not fooled or swayed by the opinions of others. However, our false sense of unadulterated independence blatantly ignores our social dependency and our susceptibility to influence.

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