The Environment That Shapes You.

You are born a genius but it may be corroded over time.

As a baby, you were an open vessel pre-programmed with genetics but environmentally shaped.

If you were taken out of your home as a newborn and placed in a country totally opposite to where you were raised you would have no knowledge of your present accent, customs, opinions, viewpoints on life or colloquialisms. 

That is being born in Australia and raised in Sichuan province in China you would be fluent in Chinese but have no idea of Australian culture, dialect or what it means to be "Australian."

Therefore your environment has the greatest impact on who you become, what you are, and what shapes you than your genetics. 

As adults who we surrounded ourselves with also shapes us.

Regardless of how strong-minded you may be if you hang around lazy, gossiping, small-minded, argumentative people you will become that.

Have you ever noticed how the smallest habits of other's rub off on you?

If you are around them long enough it must happen.

Conversely, being around winners, good-finders, high-fivers, and those who have a higher standard for life, you will adopt these behaviours naturally.

These habits are what setup what is acceptable, what is expected and what would be tolerated in your own life.

It would be like magic if you didn't understand that the environment you are in shapes these habits and ultimately who you become.

You mirror the tribe you belong to. 

Choose wisely.

Vaughan.