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. He was so nervous that he was clutching abottle of Jack Daniels for liquid courage. And the truth is: he actually wasnamp。 I recently fell in love with a story about a great piece of American art. And itamp。Conformity is the jailer offreedom and the enemy of growth.amp。t designed to promote popular thought. It wasarchitected to protect dissent. For, as President Kennedy said, amp。s in our biology. But the thingsthat make us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves tobe pulled in another direction. Conformity is so fascinating and so pervasive that it has beenstudied for a very long time. See, it turns out there are two things that can dramatically reduceconformity in a group setting. The first is a single dissenting voice, and the second is theability to municate privately with other members of the group. Our government gives usthe right to privacy and the right to express ourselves freely in the hope that we mightmitigate conformity. Democracy wasnamp。 we want to be a part of the group. Itamp。 we want tobe accepted by our peers amp。t want to be left out of the celebrations. What was I going to do?Stay in my dorm room while all of my friends processed into the stadium and tossed their capsinto the air without me? So I sat in the hot sun and I listened to Cory Booker talk for what feltlike quite a while, and I waved to my family who had traveled all the way to Stanford to watchme not to graduate. By the way, hi, Mom! It only recently occurred to me, whi