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    Violating or Breaking Social Norms: by Gunjan Bansal

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    Gunjan Bansal wrote about violating a social norm by returning torn bits of paper that someone had thrown out of a bus window. While stuck in traffic, Gunjan saw a man throw trash out the window. Gunjan got out of their car, collected the trash, and threw it back into the bus while telling the man to use a trash bin. Gunjan felt reluctant and scared at first but accomplished afterwards. Witnessing others smile and signal approval boosted Gunjan's confidence and sense of responsibility in challenging themselves to step outside their comfort zone.

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    Gunjan Bansal wrote about violating a social norm by returning torn bits of paper that someone had thrown out of a bus window. While stuck in traffic, Gunjan saw a man throw trash out the window. Gunjan got out of their car, collected the trash, and threw it back into the bus while telling the man to use a trash bin. Gunjan felt reluctant and scared at first but accomplished afterwards. Witnessing others smile and signal approval boosted Gunjan's confidence and sense of responsibility in challenging themselves to step outside their comfort zone.

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    Understanding Individual Dynamics

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    Violating Social Norms

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    Gunjan Bansal wrote about violating a social norm by returning torn bits of paper that someone had thrown out of a bus window. While stuck in traffic, Gunjan saw a man throw trash out the window. Gunjan got out of their car, collected the trash, and threw it back into the bus while telling the man to use a trash bin. Gunjan felt reluctant and scared at first but accomplished afterwards. Witnessing others smile and signal approval boosted Gunjan's confidence and sense of responsibility in challenging themselves to step outside their comfort zone.

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    Violating or Breaking Social Norms: by Gunjan Bansal

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    Gunjan Bansal wrote about violating a social norm by returning torn bits of paper that someone had thrown out of a bus window. While stuck in traffic, Gunjan saw a man throw trash out the window. Gunjan got out of their car, collected the trash, and threw it back into the bus while telling the man to use a trash bin. Gunjan felt reluctant and scared at first but accomplished afterwards. Witnessing others smile and signal approval boosted Gunjan's confidence and sense of responsibility in challenging themselves to step outside their comfort zone.

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    Violating or Breaking Social Norms

    By Gunjan Bansal
    80118150054

    Norm Broken : Returning the torn bits of paper/s to its rightful


    owner.
    Incident:
    As a usual Sunday drive back home from college, I hit the Western
    Express highway and headed towards Goregaon. However, today,
    since I had a movie planned, instead of taking a left towards home, I
    took a right from the highway towards the Oberoi Mall. All this while,
    I was constantly rattling my brain with thoughts on what I could or
    could not do for the task Breaking the norm and suddenly it all
    just happened I could literally see myself doing it!
    After taking the right from the highway, was unusually hit by traffic
    in this lane and to add more, I was stuck behind a bus ( BEST bus).
    While I was pateintly waiting, I saw a hand throwing a chunk of
    paper bits out of the window right in middle of the road. In my head
    I knew that THIS IS IT! So, I pulled the hand break, got off the car,
    walked upto the fallen trash, collected those bits of paper from the
    road, got on to the divider, and threw it back to the hand ( by now I
    discovered that the hand belonged to a young man) and told him to
    throw it in the trash bin and if he dint know what dustbin looks like,
    I could always show him one!
    Did the task, got back to my car feeling accomplished and drove to
    the cinema with a smile!
    Feeling before I broke the norm :

    Felt reluctant because I had to do it in front of so many people


    and in a busy area
    Was scared of the result
    Was afraid that the traffic would clear and my car would
    become the block
    At the same time, was determined and
    The force to teach the man a lesson drove me to do what I
    did
    Adrenaline rush building up as I got closer to the spot

    Feeling after I broke the norm :

    Boosted confidence

    Dint believe what just happened


    Couldnt conceal happiness
    After receiving some positive response from people who
    witnessed it ( few actually clapped, others smiled and an
    autorikshaw driver next to my car signalled a thumbs up with
    a bright smile!) felt a sense of responsibility
    The person I gave back the bits to was perhaps shocked,
    ashamed and did not say anything ( its even possible that I
    never heard him)
    Felt an indescribable power
    The adrenaline rush that stayed for quite some time - could
    literally hear my heart beat thrice as fast !!

    Challenges I faced :
    For me to step out of my confort zone so publicly is very difficult. I
    usually avoid gaining unncessary attention from people around, so
    this was a big break through. It was like I discovered a completely
    new side of myself.

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