Power Of Influence & Peers (3)

Sources of Influence

There are many sources of influence. New crave, new desires spur a likeness that consumes the mind and wants to suggest it to a rethink. Anything that the mind likea, anything that the individual likes could influence him.

Therefore the sources of influence could be eany of these, but not restricted to them.

1. Friends or colleagues. These are the strongest elements of influence. Friends and colleagues embody the key factors of influence. These are people we see and interact with more often, we share thoughts together; and the tendency is that somehow we are affected by their views and lifestyles.

2. Role models. These sets fancy us. They consume our emotions because they are people we look up to and in some ways, want to be like they are. They strike our interests and strongly would manipulate our thinking into theirs for the reason that by so doing we are becoming like them.

3. Political figures. They shape policies and programmes of government. They control power which almost everyone desires. We desire power, we admire them and follow their thinking and lifestyles because we want to be like them.

4. Social influencers like music artists, movies stars, etc. These sets are the screen lords and goddesses. Virtually every day we hear them, see them; and the raze with which they appear, we admire them, want to see them, to associate with them and to be like them.

5. Social media like Facebook and the Internet, etc. This is where we apend most of our time and energy nowadays. The consistency and the closeness towards this attraction reconfigure our mindsets into adopting the the things that get us attracted to it.

Question for Peers

Pwers influences as much as it could come in the negative forms, could also come in the positive.

Even as much as it is a natural tendency to be like peers, for the reason of not being different, one must to ask: The thing for which I would want to be like my peers, is it good? Must I be like others even in dishonourable things? Is there anything wrong if I stand out, different from others in being a person of honour?

It has been discovered that standing alone oftentimes is difficult. There's this aloneness, as if you're an island, as though you don't know what's up. It is this feeling of being disconnected from the trends, the happening things that brings a consideration to join-to be like peers.

The question as such shifts from "is it good or bad?" to "are not my friends doing same?"

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