sistawendy | (Reply)

I think that works the best when it's a culture that is modeled. When everyone around you does it as peers, it's easy to participate and get in the habit of thinking "how could I have prevented this?". When you're in a regular environment where few people want to blame themselves for things that don't go as planned, it's harder to get someone to ride responsibility herd on themselves, because humans don't want to take blame, and no one else seems to be doing it. And so if the only person suggesting this approach is an authority figure, well, most teenagers aren't going to like that. Other than making some pilot friends his own age, or an environment of similar peer-pressure responsibility, this is a tough one to solve. (I see it mostly in Search and Rescue, and how we try to model it for our youth outreach parts of the program. But I think it works there because *everyone* does it, and it's clearly better to be warm, fed, dry, and knowing where you are than it is to be wet, cold, hungry, and lost, which is what happens if you don't take responsibility for your actions and do smart things. So we have both group culture *and* Maslow-level happiness reinforcement helping. I imagine it's similar with pilots.)