Benefits of Nonconformism Detriments of Else Understanding of the Universe The level of awareness achieved is astounding. The greater percent of most knowledge is based on what you have heard fromothers. A nonconformist will not let other people's ideas slide into his mind without evaluating them himself. Thus every bit of knowledge he possesses is completely understood from every angle. Detriments of Nonconformism Benefits of Else Day Dreaming Indeed a great amount of a nonconformists spare time is spent thinking about mental puzzles. Whenever new emotions are discovered, an undesirable habit is needed to be purged, or new situation is verged upon it is the mental obligation of the nonconformist to halt all other activities mental or physical to resolve to puzzle. This causes the nonconformist to put little or no concentration in his assigned task. After many resolutions a great mass of information is accrued and it becomes easier to handle problems, or in other words you get better at it. This is worst while the foundation is first being set because the nonconformist must face EVERY one of his personal problems or quirks honestly to himself. One of the keys to nonconformism is that there's no point in lying to yourself. Lying to yourself is an easy way to get out of solving a problem, like "it doesn't really matter" is an obvious one, or even "I don't care". Either of these does nothing to the problem but make your life harder. The problem WILL come back to haunt you, I guarantee it.