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Peer Pressure – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #800 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #800 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Huy Chien Tran Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Peer pressure refers to the influence exerted by a person's peers or social group to conform to certain behaviors, values, or attitudes. It can be both direct, through explicit requests or demands, or indirect, through perceived social norms or expectations within a group. The children get exposed to peer pressure as soon as they start interacting with other children, at very tender ages. School exposure is the first major avenue of facing, feeling, and negotiating with the peer pressure in its many aspe...

Saving Our Self – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #585 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #585. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Winter is the time for reminiscences, old memories, poetry, music, heaters, or more recently, inverters. It is a time for self-appraisals, insights, thinking, and contemplating. In the long, solitary nights, our focus invariably turns to our own self. Everything else emanates from and connects with ‘Our Self’. Let me present a beautiful poem by the famous Mary Oliver to set the scene. THE JOURNEY One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “M...