Beware of Being Normal, it can Be Worse than You Think!

"Abnormal"is just another statistical concept. It's the opposite of "normal". I disagree with you, normalcy is not yardstick for the best, it's a yardstick for the average. "The best" however we should define it, is definitely extreme, far from normalcy. And so is the worst, in the other end of the scale.

But your article is not supported by statistical facts such as normal curve etc in that regard. It treated the word "normal or normalcy" as literary words. Thank you.

There’s a Gaussian curve right there in the Levey Jennings Chart indicating +-1sd in the lead image 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

Good. You set your own norms and try to reach the optimal for your life, which is not necessarily the same as the environment wants you to believe.

I did take a look at your article. You mean that being unique in your sense is the same as when I talk about not following the mainstream, choosing to be outside of the "normal" in search for the optimal? Yes, indeed, it might be the same thing expressed in other terms.

Thanks!

That's the misconception I want to challenge.

Yes, I agree completely, except that thousands of years would rather be tens of thousands. It probably started as a necessity and established itself in human behaviour. Since then every society in human history have punished deviation from what they perceive as the norm. The punishment varies, however, from death penalty to just ridicule and the whole scale in between them, but it is there. Deviating from the norm requires strength.

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The problem is that people think it is something good, while, for instance in medicine,this is entirely a statistical concept. And, no doubt, if you want optimal health, you should not be pleased with "normal".

Yeah, the curve shows the normal distribution.

When you ask 'Why do you "label" something?' you enter another complicated question which is entirely different. Reality is not classified or labelled, that is something existing only in our minds. Why? Because our minds are limited in ability, we need labels in order to deal with a reality far too complex for us to grasp otherwise.

That is why I prefer ketogenic food, vegan food also, natural fitness. It might be extreme but it promotes longevity.

Yes it’s true. But reality does not exist in the mind, as what you have said. Mind is limited on its own paradigm. But yeah I know you understood.

I agree. I have a similar approach. I want to find and reach the optimal, I am not interested in the average.

Yes, and in the same way "extreme" is often perceived as something negative, or used to denote something negative, while it just means far from the average or far from the mainstream.

No doubt many acts are invisible to the environment, both of kindness and of evil.

As for not being normal, it can be in any direction. It can be for better or worse. You can always deviate from the average in two directions.

Yes, and what's extreme today, can be mainstream in the future.

Here you show again why you are such a good reader. If difficult, you read slowly to absorb the text. Most people just rush over a text like this without taking the time to really think about it and understand. And yes, what you write shows that you have understood.