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Podcast: R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Episode: Social convention is often what keeps you from doing good things in your life.
Description: social convention often keeps you from doing good things in your life. We often think that we can’t do something because it is what the norms are in our contacts. Who says that we can’t live very austerely such as living in a tent? Why is it socially acceptable to not live in a car? There’s many different things in our life that we do simply because it’s convention.
Once we start realizing that it’s all just convention beyond the small amount that we need, we give ourselves room to do really interesting and thought-provoking ideas that...