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Season 3 - Episode 28 - Conformity…curse or a blessing · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  From the chicken coop. So today we're talking about
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  conformity, and it sounds like such a word that most people
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  just don't like. Whenever you use the word
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  conformity, it sounds so heavy, and it sounds like you have to
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  let go of things. The reality is you do have to
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  let go of some things, whether it's within yourself, whether
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  it's in how you're trying to do something.
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  Conformity really is what it means.
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  You have to allow something to. Say this.
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  Is what I want you to do or this is how this should be done And
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  then you fall into that pattern and you conform to very much
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  like jello in a mold. Now the problem is people think
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  I have to resist this all the time.
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  I have to resist this all the time.
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  But the truth is we all do it regularly.
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  If we are part of a group, if we say we identify it on to how a a
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  a group thinks we are conforming to their beliefs instead of our
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  own. So we're we're stuck in a
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  conundrum. Essentially we're stuck in a
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  huge conundrum of saying yes, I don't, I I definitely don't want
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  to conform. Yes, I want to be independent,
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  yet we conform by putting labels.
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  As we've talked about labels last week on ourselves, we
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  conform in many, many different ways.
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  So is it a bad thing? Well, everything always comes
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  down to looking at it from both sides of the coin.
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  Is it a bad thing? No.
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  Can it be a horrible thing? Yes, it can it be It.
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  Can it be a good thing? Sure.
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  If you want to be shaped like the jello mold and if you are
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  looking for something and you're trying to identify and as your
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  role, like let's say you want to become a nurse, you have to go
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  through the training for that and you have to conform to the
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  rules of nursing. So in that case it serves your
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  outcome. It's absolutely necessary and.
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  Highly. Desirable to do that.
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  And then there are other times when you want to be that
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  creative and that inventor and you want to do things and you
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  don't want it to be something that you conform to.
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  You want to think outside the box.
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  And then conformity is not necessarily a good thing.
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  So where we get stuck in our head is when we start to think
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  and believe and show up in a pattern that is rigid.
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  So the conformity piece of this is not really the problem we
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  believe it is. It's more about the rigidity of
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  not being able to look at it and judge it.
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  So as soon as we become rigid, we, you know, I've, I've used
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  this metaphor before because it's such a good one.
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  But any engineer will tell you if you are rigid and you are a
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  bridge, taking people from where they are to where they want to
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  go and that wind kicks up, you will crack, you will break and
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  you will fall and kill people in the process.
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  The same thing in in being a human.
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  When you're rigid, you have these barriers of greatness
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  because you only see it one way and there's no flexibility and
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  conformity is no different. What that does to us, it's no
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  different of how it brings that up.
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  So what's so incredibly important to remember is that we
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  have to look at ourselves. And we have to.
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  Say OK, in my conforming or non conforming and pushing for that,
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  am I actually doing things for the greater?
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  Good of myself? Or am I just causing myself more
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  frustration in the process? Because the reality is that
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  conforming is not a bad thing. Rigidity.
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  Sometimes is not a bad thing, sometimes it has to be rigid.
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  But having the awareness to understand when to say, OK, now
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  is not the time to be the jello in the mold, Now is just the
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  time to be me, whether that's the liquid.
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  State. Of the cello or the chopped
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  state of the jello, whatever that may be.
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  It's always looking at it and saying, okay, where am I right
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  now? And being truthful with yourself
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  about how you feel and if you can't make a decision on it
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  right this moment because you're looking at it and you're saying,
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  gosh, I just don't know if I can, I can do this.
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  I don't know if I can conform. And then give yourself the time
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  and the space to think about it and say, OK, I, I don't have
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  either enough information or I don't have enough space between
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  myself and the emotion that's driving right now.
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  Because this is one of those deep questions that requires you
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  get to a state of neutral or a. State of.
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  Contemplation, which is very close to neutral, where it's not
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  so heated anymore, where you're bringing yourself back to.
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  I'm curious and I need to see how I feel about all kinds of
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  things in this, and that helps immensely.
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  So remember, it's not always a bad thing when someone says you
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  have to conform, yet it. Can be.
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  A terrible thing, all depending upon how you are contemplating
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  your thoughts in that process, how you're formulating what
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  you're point of position is. So always come back and check
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  that point of position my friends.
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  All right. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.