“I am not in the world to meet your expectations...” -- Bruce Lee“He who lies with dogs, rises with fleas.” -- George Herbert Do you remember your first cigarette? How about your first beer? First shot on a fat guy? How about jumping from the old bridge into the creek? What/who convinced you to do it? Friends...right? Peer Pressure: Influence from members of your peer group (and a hard thing to resist if you ask me). Well, studies show that I'm not alone. Peer pressure is a brain condition! The human brain evaluates results obtained in social contexts compared to results obtained alone. Two parts of the brain linked to rewards, the striatum and the medial prefrontal cortex, showed much more activity in success among friends than in success alone. In the article Infographic: The Science of Peer Pressure, the author calls friendship magic. Group support may have the power to help you tolerate pain, stay healthy, make you kinder, raise your math scores, and deter terrorism (http://1bog.org/blog/infographic-the-science- of-peer -pressure/). The article ...