{"id":533,"date":"2008-11-17T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T08:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-11-16T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T18:31:19","slug":"choosing-correct-peers-for-peer-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/choosing-correct-peers-for-peer-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing correct peers for peer pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been observing interesting phenomena regarding peer pressure<\/a>. Most of the things that we do, we do because we’re prompted by our peers. That’s perfectly fine, since this is the way by nature’s design.<\/p>\n

The issue is that we have to choose carefully which peers we decide to listen and be influenced by. Stereotypical example of this would be bad company<\/strong>\u00a0that influences you to start drinking, robbing old ladies and overall misbehave<\/em>. But that’s taking it to negative (?) extreme.<\/p>\n

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Then there is positive influence from your peers. The one that forces you to continue studying, take up new hobbies or just stop eating meat and cooked foods ;). There’s just only one problem with that. As much as your work peers (for example) are\u00a0enthusiastic\u00a0about you going vegan<\/a> or something of that nature, they won’t be able to give you\u00a0adequate\u00a0support.<\/p>\n

That why it’s important that when you’re choosing up new positive habits to also find a proper support group<\/a> for it.\u00a0Preferably\u00a0within a group of people that already went through similar transformation and can advise and cheer you and will know that you’re going to be break, even before you do.<\/p>\n

(Random thought: wouldn’t be a group called\u00a0carrot chewers anonymous<\/strong> be a great place to talk about going meat free?)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lately I’ve been observing interesting phenomena regarding peer pressure. Most of the things that we do, we do because we’re prompted by our peers. That’s perfectly fine, since this is the way by nature’s design. The issue is that we have to choose carefully which peers we decide to listen and be influenced by. Stereotypical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[486,541,542,540],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-group","tag-peer-group","tag-peer-pressure","tag-support-group"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}