239: Conscious Choices vs. Norm Matching: A Guide to Authentic Living
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever found yourself at a restaurant with the intention of ordering a healthy salad, only to change your mind and go for the nachos because everyone else did? You're not alone! This classic scenario exemplifies what psychologists call "norm matching."
In this episode of the podcast, I dive deep into the concept of norm matching and how it affects our daily lives.
Here's a glimpse of what you'll discover:
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What is norm matching and how it influences your choices
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How societal norms impact your decluttering efforts
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Strategies to break free from the grip of norm matching and make conscious choices
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Reflective questions to help you distinguish between conscious choices and norm matching
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.8 | Hey friend, welcome back to the show. So let me know if this has happened to you. Have you ever been |
| 0:34.9 | on a nutrition plan and went out to eat with your friends or family and you're like fully committed to ordering a salad and water? |
| 0:43.4 | The waiter starts going around the table asking everyone for their order, tacos, beer, nachos, you know, Philly cheese steaks. |
| 0:50.5 | And you're like, your mouth is salivating. |
| 0:52.4 | You're like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. |
| 0:53.6 | That sounds really good. And by the time the waiter gets to take your order, you're like, your mouth is salivating. You're like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, that sounds really good. |
| 0:55.0 | And by the time the waiter gets to take your order, you're like, I'm out. I want nachos. |
| 1:00.8 | Next thing you know, you're staring at a plate full of nachos in front of you. But it's got like shredded |
| 1:05.1 | lettuce on top. So that counts for something, right? So there's kind of a salad on top. At least that's what we tell |
| 1:11.3 | ourselves. So even though we went to that restaurant and we want to eat healthier, |
| 1:16.4 | we matched our friends and families' behavior, right? We ordered what they ordered. |
| 1:21.9 | Now, this is a classic example of what's called norm matching. And I think, and I know really, this has happened to all of us |
| 1:29.0 | in some sense, maybe not with food, but we're going to be diving into how it's impacting your |
| 1:34.3 | declutter journey, right? So norm matching is a psychological concept where people adjust their |
| 1:40.3 | behavior or choices to align with a group or society. In this case, this, you know, |
| 1:46.2 | food example, it's just your friends and family sitting around at the dinner table. And it's a form |
| 1:51.0 | of influence where people conform to what they believe is the standard or it's acceptable or |
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