"Conformity means following the crowd down conventional paths and maintaining the status quo.
Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better." Adam Grant, Originals
Conformists achieve in bureaucracies where you are rewarded for maintaining the status quo, until the bureaucracy dies from irrelevance.
Originals change the way we look at things and make a dent in the universe.
There is a conformist and original in all of us.
What do you want to stay the same and what do you want to change?
Welcome to my annotated bibliography and collage of musings, article excerpts, abstracts, questions, essays, stories, lecture notes, reflections, seed thoughts and topics that capture my imagination. Social Work is an applied social science and aims to improve the opportunities & living conditions of vulnerable people. Alejandra Acuña, PhD, MSW, LCSW, PPSC
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