Peer Pressure Speech

What is peer pressure? We have all at one stage in our lives experienced peer pressure and know how bad it feels. It impacts especially our generation in several aspects. As a teenager, I think peer pressure plays an important role in our life and can lead to all sorts of positive outcomes, including improve health, motivate learning attitudes and bring different things into our lives. Peer pressure is very common in modern day society due to people’s urge to compare with each other, being sensitive to other people’s thoughts. The dictionary defines peer pressure as a social pressure by member of one’s peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or confirm in order to be accepted, often cause negative impacts on our lives.

Majority of us would think or assume it to be about something negative. For example, when I first asked my mom what she thought about peer pressure, the first word she gave me was unfavorable. She believes peer pressure from classmates or friends can have a very bad effect and results in delinquent and addictive activities, such as drug abuse and drinking alcohol. People never view peer pressure as something that is positive. However, it can actually help us to improve our health. Studies have found the greatest influences on kids’ fitness level are the physical activity tendencies of their peers. For instance, when we are trying to lose weight by exercising in the gym, we often think of giving up due to the intolerable pain and persuade ourselves with excuses. At this moment, we can utilize the perfect body shape of our friends to stimulate us to keep exercise. To sum up, I strongly suggest people to view peer pressure as an influence that is positive instead of

Patrick Lencioni, who is an American writer of books on team management, states that “The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they doing to intervene.” As a professional in team management, he’s very familiar with the effects of peer pressure since it is involved in every team work. Take my own experience as an example, once I was doing this group project at school, and I wasn’t paying much attention at first. Although the teacher asked me to take this project seriously, I was determined to leave the work for the others in our group to finish. Then, one of my closest friend, Max, yelled at me and said it was so irresponsible of me leaving all the work to others and just chilling on the side, trying to be cool. I wanted to disagree but I could not and my ego was hurt. Then I pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil and joined the group work. Therefore, I think non-excessive peer pressure can be a motivation for people’s