A beautiful Welsh poppy.
One of my favourite flowers.
Motivation and peer pressure.
Odysseus faced the peril of the
Sirens and their irresistible song.
He told his men to fill their
ears with wax so they would not be tempted by the music,
and to tie him to the mast so
he could hear it,
but be restrained from
submitting to the temptation to steer closer to the fatal rocks…
A casual stroll through a
students’ union bar on any week night will tell you peer pressure
is one of the most powerful
influencers out there. Peer pressure is at its most visible and visceral when
it comes to drinking alcohol. Just try ordering a glass of water when out with
the rugby club.
In schools, peer pressure is
just as visceral. Whether it is a force for good or ill depends.
Where it pressurises kids
into bullying or by standing, disrupting lessons or disrespecting teachers,
it can be monstrously
damaging. Where it creates a virtuous circle of friendly competition,
encouragement, hard work and useful revision, it’s a big, friendly giant.
Where it tips over into
unhealthy competition, sleepless nights and agonising stress over grades,
it’s just as dangerous a
beast.
How do we harness the
daunting power of peer pressure,
especially when it comes to
motivation, willpower and self-control?
Thaler and Sunstein explain:
‘Problems arise when people
must make decisions that test their capacity for self-control.
Self-control issues are most
likely when choices and consequences are separated in time.
Costs are borne immediately,
but benefits are delayed. On the other hand, for some things
we get the pleasure now and
suffer the consequences later.’
This sounds to me exactly
like the decision that pupils have: ‘do I make the costly effort to
work hard now for some hazy, eventual, potential future? Or do I have fun, muck about
and disrupt the lesson, earning street cred now from my peers, which pays off
right away?’
The options of effort
exertion and lesson disruption have opposite reward profiles: the first has
immediate costs and delayed benefits; the second has instant benefits and
delayed costs.
https://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/motivation-peer-pressure/
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