An excerpt from Emile Coué's book Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion:
"Panurge was quite aware of the contagion of example, that is to say the action of the imagination, when, avenge himself upon a merchant on board the same boat, he bought his biggest sheep and threw it on the sea, certain beforehand that the entire flock would follow, which indeed happened.
We human beings have a certain resemblance to sheep, and involuntary, we are irresistibly impelled to follow other people's examples, imagining that we cannot do otherwise".

That said, don't be sheep, GYOW!
That's all.