 Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist of Yale University, was intrigued by how millions of seemingly normal people like you and I were able to commit such heinous crimes against the Jews during the Holocaust. So he set up an experiment that has become notoriously known as the Milgram obedience study to study the human condition of conflict. You see the experiment had three people. The first was an authority figure to give instructions to the subject. The second person was the subject who had control of an electric shock generator with incremental levels of voltage is going from 15 volts all the way up to 450 volts. The third person was an actor who answered the questions and was shocked every single time he received a wrong answer. So the subject and the actor were separated by the room and the subject didn't know that the actor obviously was an actor. So he thought that the actor was a real participant in this experiment. So whenever the actor got a question wrong the subject was ordered by the authority figure to give him a shock. Each wrong answer deserving a higher shock. So it just kept going up and up. Now the results were incredibly surprising. It appeared that people were conflicted when they were given these shocks. As the shocks went up they were conflicted and they knew that morally there was something wrong with what they were doing. However, they kept on bending to the authority figure's will. The majority of people actually inflicted devastating shocks to the victim despite his pleas. So the question that begs an answer is why did people bend their ethics and their morals just to please the authority figure? Now if we think about humans, humans are made to follow leaders. Since the dawn of time every civilization has had some head or leader to follow. For the followers it makes life much easier as they do not have to make difficult decisions and simply have to follow. However, the result of this can be tragic, especially when the leader is wrong as could be seen in that experiment. Have you ever had a boss who has made obvious mistake? However, no one managed to call them out on it. I'm sure you have. Now this happens on every level. It happens at your local grocery store. It also happens on the executive board of large companies. Many companies have been led to their destruction based off the fact that people were unable to call out the leader on their mistakes. People were unable to call out the CEO on his bullshit because of this inherent tendency to follow the leader. Now even planes have crashed as a result of this tendency. When the pilot makes an obvious mistake and the co-pilot fails to adjust it, the co-pilot might have seen it, but fails to address the issue because they blindly follow the leader. Malcolm Glaibow addresses this in his book, Our Lives. So why do people do this? It appears to be something that's inherent in us. So it's a tendency that you have to be very careful of. You don't follow the leader all the time because the leader can lead you into shit. So next time your boss is messing up and no one's calling it out, understand that they could be suffering from this authority misinfluenced tendency. Combined with social proof can be a very dangerous thing, especially when someone's got a reputation for always being right. So sometimes it's up to us to step up and to correct things to be the pioneer that gets the arrows in their back. However, sometimes these courses or actions are for the greater good. So I hope you guys enjoyed that video and got something out of it. Make sure you subscribe. Peace out.