Gen Z faces peer pressure

Many Gen Zers always think that they are inferior and not as good as anyone else when compared to their peers. The result is pressure, stress, and the inability to escape the negative emotions they carry.

Young people are eager to fulfill their wishes and prove their abilities - Photo: QUANG DINH

Many people are so busy chasing invisible standards, looking at other people's success as a measure that they accidentally forget their own goals and values.

Don’t be too quick to compare yourself to others. Peer pressure is a form of psychological pressure when you or someone else compares you to others in terms of appearance, ability, grades, status, etc. This creates pressure and feelings of sadness and depression. This becomes even more terrible in the digital world when social networks develop rapidly.

Surfing social media makes many Gen Zers fall into a spiral of comparing themselves to others, always looking at others, talking about others and ignoring themselves. They want to be successful, talented, and rich like others, but do not focus on exploiting their potential, do not take action to achieve what they desire.

When you compare yourself to other more successful people before you can see your strengths and weaknesses, it can easily lead to anxiety and stress. If you keep chasing other people's success, it will lead to insomnia, restlessness, anxiety... and the feeling that you are not suitable for the place where you live and work.

Unconsciously changing behavior, doing things you don't want to do. Most notably, always putting yourself on a scale, comparing yourself to others and then lowering your self-worth.

Be the best version of yourself. To overcome peer pressure, it is time to look at yourself, no matter what you are now, accept it and face it. If you continue to hold on to peer pressure, you will lose many things including the things you have.

All success and happiness come through hard work, practice and self-belief.

Give yourself trust and respect for your process. Put aside all the other voices and give yourself some space. Listen to what you want, what you can do, and what you need to do to make it happen.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/gen-z-truoc-ap-luc-dong-trang-lua-20250111112800858.htm