Distributed to #Psychology
Why We Follow The Worst People
Nearly 10 years in the daycare business have explained everything.
Erin King is the author of “How To Be Wise AF” on Amazon now.
We all have an inborn instinct to follow the worst person in the room.
I haven’t read a bunch of studies or taken sociology or psychology degrees — I work with toddlers.
I’ve had a home daycare for the last eight years. For these eight years,10 hours a day, five days a week, I observe the inception and development of human behavior.
Every day I watch five little animals struggle to become human. Every day is a battle between their basest animal instincts and the necessary evolution into human society.
One of the instincts I see surface continually is the impulse to follow the worst person in the room.
No matter the child — angel, or renegade — every group of toddlers repeats the same pattern, without exception. They always gravitate to the worst behavior in the room.
