Daily focus| Influence: Absorbing Negative Influence

Influence is not always blatant, and we may not always know that we are being influenced. John Berger says, “Sometimes we see influence—we readily see our peers doing the same thing as the folks next to them. Yet there’s one place where we often fail to see influence, and that is ourselves. Often because it has a non-conscious effect on our behaviour, we are not aware that it is influencing us.” Let’s talk about it.