Dr. Todd Rose

or economic ruin for having the wrong opinion.

And that should be unacceptable.

Look, the only way out of collective illusions in a principled way is you got to have the moral courage to be honest about what you believe, but also the civic courage to make it safe for other people to do so.

But to your point, there are times, sometimes we just imagine the fear of social sanctioning, but for sometimes it is real, right?

And so in the book, I laid out a handful of

things you can do instead of self silencing that we know from research shows it doesn't expose you to that kind of canceling, right?

But it can still help to tease out the presence of illusions and shatter them when they're in place.

So it's interesting, right?

So it turns out groups don't punish people who haven't made up their mind yet.

So if you're unsure about speaking up and you think it might be an illusion and you don't want to be on the wrong side of the group,

the easiest thing you could do is actually insert uncertainty, saying, you know, I'm not sure yet.

And you can do that on the one hand, you know, on the other hand.

And it turns out that if it really is the group's true opinion, they will try to persuade you.

You know, groups will actually try to change your mind and convince you.

If it's an illusion, what you'll see is lots of other people will grab that escape hatch you just offered and end up adopting the sort of uncertain position and

And at no point are you at risk for being canceled if all you're doing is expressing uncertainty.

So some of these, the most important thing you can do, especially when it's about belonging to your tribe, right?

Because under belonging, it's not just that you'll stay silent.

You'll often lie about what you believe.

to show that you're part of the group.