self-definition is achieved through freedom, choice, and commitment.

Rgarding the norms of self-identity,  this is tied to the project of self-definition and is achieved through freedom, choice, and commitment. In the view of many, tt is not achieved by joining the herd as they stampede on their righteous way towards the cliff top.

for Kierkegaard,the crowd: “the crowd is untruth.” 

The crowd is, roughly, public opinion in the widest sense—the ideas that a given age takes for granted; the ordinary and accepted way of doing things; the complacent attitude that comes from the conformity necessary for social life—and what condemns it to “untruth” in Kierkegaard’s eyes is the way that it insinuates itself into an individual’s own sense of worth who she is, relieving her of the burden of being herself for I am one of the 'pack'

and 'safe' within its enfolds.

 there is no need for me to “become” one.