The Supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself. Absent this attainment, education creates dangerous stupefying conformity.

A quote by Bryant McGill.

Just sit alone in a room and think.

How socialization makes you stupid. In this episode we're going to talk about the dangers of

conformity and group think. I deliberately gave this episode a rather flamboyant

bombastic title, sort of a controversial title that will trigger some people.

I wanted to frame it very starkly for you

because this issue is much more serious than most people realize.

And this is what we'll be elaborating upon here.

So the way I came across this idea, it really is I've been socializing a lot over the last year.

I've been going out talking to lots of people. In the last year

I've probably approached and talked to at least 3,000 strangers, maybe even more.

Like I've socialized more in the last year

than maybe I have ever in my life, like a lot.

And I've been noticing the kind of effect it has on my mind.

And especially lately in the last few years,

I've just become a lot more conscious than I ever used to be.

And you know, I've gone through phases of lots of

socialization in the past in my life but I wasn't as conscious back then as I am now

and so now when I'm out socializing I'm sort of hyper meta aware of the

effect that the socialization has on me and it's very interesting just to observe.

So I sort of just kind of contemplating all this and thinking about it, mulling it over, and what I realized, which of course isn't anything new to me, I knew this my whole life, but I realized even more starkly that I've never been a highly social

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