Nilofer has a great post at NiloferMerchant.com and I wanted to share the gist of it here…

“We want to be normal. We want to fit in. We all do. Just last week, as I was packing for my first Board of Director meeting, I couldn’t decide what one wore to a BoD meeting, and got all befuddled. In this small way, and in many big ways, we show how much we all want to be a part of a tribe, a group, our unit because we want to belong.

This, too, is normal. Our heritage and conditioning explains how we as a 21st century people came to value “fitting in”. It started when our Palaeolithic ancestors learned to survive because their inclusion and acceptance by their clan, meant — quite literally — their very survival through a harsh winter.

We continue pursuing normal and, in the process, we do ourselves a big disservice. Seeking normalcy means we stop looking for what makes each of us unique. We stop asking ourselves the question of our purpose. We stop valuing dissension as a source of creative fuel. When we deny difference in opinion, we lack the friction to rub ideas together to make a better option of the two. When we don’t have many ideas to choose from, our institutions reduce their innovation.” Source: Normalcy is a Unicorn | Yes & Know

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