Become aware of when conformity to the group norm is counter-productive and should not be followed, when independence should take precedence and be adopted regardless of social rejection by that group.

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Have lunch with a group of people outside your norm.

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As women, in many cases, the impulse to do something out of the norm of our peer group, like write an opinion piece or ask for a promotion, has simply never occurred to us.

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These investors realized that the employment picture was outside the norm and started to accumulate shares in the schools group.

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"They actually figured out a good intervention there, which was to break apart this central group of girls that were essentially promoting the spread of this norm of a heightened sexuality at a very young age, " Fowler said.

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