Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.
Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.