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4.(c)     Pursuing Economic Materialism often comes at a stressful price due to Six Lifestyle Behaviour Influences

The following Six Lifestyle Behaviour Influences which generally commence impacting in teenage years render the joy of playing outside with your mates a distant childhood memory for many adults, whereupon the associated self-confidence gained from Youthful Exuberance may dissipate:

(I)          pressures of getting an education and pursuing a career in an increasingly competitive global economy;

(II)         puberty followed by physical relationships and associated obligations/responsibilities including accommodation and transport;

(III)        meeting the cost of raising children;

(IV)       social drugs, substance abuse etc which are often deployed to counter the stresses of modern life;

(V)        the Internet, which is evidencing humans since the turn of the century, sitting in front of pieces of plastic and communicating with other humans on average of 2 hours a day longer than a generation before; and

(VI)       "5th Guidance Influence" (Section 6) intent on "You buying our product. You need our product" ie. alluding to the enormous power of advertising in moulding Economic Materialism.

Physiotherapists use a maxim "If you don't use it, you lose it!" to highlight that eventually the squeaky gate gets the oil because when you want to open that gate again (ie. injure yourself because you have pushed beyond a diminished elastic limit, whereupon it is off to the physio to treat the injury).

Similarly the self-confidence and physical fitness accompanying Youthful Exuberance is "lost" if the associated physical challenges of Youthful Exuberance aren't continued.

How is it that some adults who had displayed patent self-confidence, vigour, fitness and good health as teenagers, can appear to their former class mates at school reunions to have lost so much of those features - even 10 years later?