5 Ways you can pervent Herd Mentality/Herd Behavior.
1: Try to make your own Ideas/Opinions Before you just go along with what other people are thinking, try to think about what you would like. For instance, after watching a movie and hearing what your friends say, don't just throw your idea out the window, try to keep your opinion, but that doesn't mean that your friends can't change it. Basically, try to keep your perspective, but leave it open to change.
2: Try to really take a lot of things into consideration while making your Opinion. If you are asked your opinion of a movie, for instance, try to take a lot of things into consideration for your overal recommendation. This will make your opinion stronger and more trustworthy, so when you hear other perspectives, your thoughts won't be blown out the water. Instead, you can defend your opinion easier and it'll make you less tempted to ditch your viewpoint.
3: Try to be neutral before making an Opinion. Before you just assume a movie is going to be bad or great, try to be right in the middle. I say this because being over postitve or negative will affect your overall thoughts. For instance, if you watch a movie, but you think it'll be not so good. It'll stick in your mind and will damage your ending opinion, by making it more negative. The same can be said the other way around. If your neutral, none of this would happen and your herd mentality won't make you lean towards being negative or positive.
4: Be brave enough to stand out. You will disagre with other people and you'll have to deal with that. If everyone was a clone of each other, we'll all make the same mistakes. If everyone is different, then we'll make different mistakes, but we can learn from others. The only way you can learn this is by understanding that and trust me, it's important to get used to standing out from the rest of the group.
5: Try to use these 4 a lot. It's important for you to get used to going against your herd mentality so following the four steps above will enable you to break free from the majority. Basically, the more you fight against your Herd mentality/Herd Behavior, the easier it becomes to form your own opinions and to share your opinion with others.
If we are more likely to fight against our Herd Mentality and Herd Behavior, we'll be able to become more unique and it'll make you overall less afraid of standing out so please use these 5 techniques in order to make you more comfortable with being different and so you can really enjoy the wonderful world of animation. That's all folks... Thank You for Reading!
If you want to see the websites I used for my research, check out the Websites Used page or for some vocabulary, check out the Animation Vocabulary page.