You'll never outgrow your social circle.

When I say "you'll never outgrow your social circle," I mean that whoever you've got around you will act as an anchor—you’ll never get much better than that.

So, if you're trying to get physically healthy, for example, but you're surrounded by really unhealthy people, you won’t get very healthy.

If you spend a lot of time with them, their influence will affect you in a thousand invisible ways, making it very hard to improve physically.

Whereas, if you replace those people with fitness fanatics, you’ll get incredibly healthy very quickly.

So, never think of yourself as isolated from your social circle.

Everyone you come into contact with affects your brain, and you can’t prevent that. Assume that whatever is around you is pulling you in that direction.

If you’re around someone miserable and pessimistic, you are somehow becoming more miserable and pessimistic just by being near them. Even if you feel like you’re fighting against it or telling yourself you can resist it, you can’t.

They’re just poisoning you with it.

The opposite is true as well. If you’re around someone who’s like, "Come on, we can do this", you’ll start believing in yourself more. It’ll affect you.

Choose your influences very carefully because you cannot choose whether they influence you. That’s happening with or without your permission.

To dive deeper into this topic, check out the original video here:

https://youtu.be/Xh53HntaARM

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