Influence

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

To start off this entry in a very GP sense - I find that we are all experiencing influence from so many sources. All the cultural influence, all the different ideas, all the different views... It's almost as if I'm "bare-naked". The mind now needs to be so open to different ideas and views, or in a very scientific sense - the mind needs to be such good conductor of ideas - so that we can live in this current world.

We can get so many ideas from different forms of media, not to mention we can get information from so many different groups of people and friends. Things can be so breath-taking. Just a small example. Now we have wikipedia. Actually what does that mean...is that everyone around you is just a small wikipedia of their own. There are so many different "good songs" that people have, there are so many "good movies", "good shows"...

And sometimes it's just so hard to listen to all the "good songs" or "good shows" people recommend. There are so many kinds of influence around. People at the end still have to choose. There's not enough time to do everything.

Recently I found out something quite intriuging. Do you behave differently in front of person A as compared to person B? That I find it's a kind of invisible influence that people exert on you - causing you to behave differently. Of course you can't behave the same in front of your teachers and in front of your cousins. But in front of friends, peers?

In front of ex CCA mates I think I'm more towards crappy. Towards ex classmates I'm more towards the listener side. Towards the platoon mate I'm more of also talkative side. There are so many different sides of me - but which side is the real me?

Being comfortable of who you are under all kinds of influence is probably the best thing that people can do. The kind of self-confidence will definitely make one a more influencial person as compared to someone who has low self-esteem.

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