Codie Sanchez uses the science of ethylene gas to explain why your circle matters: negative people spread their mindset like rotting fruit contaminates nearby fruit. Your environment shapes your baseline behavior more than willpower does, so deliberately surround yourself with people who execute.
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Did you know one negative person can ruin an entire room? Like this? There's a reason for this. You see, just like when fruit starts to rot, it releases something called ethylene gas. The fruit next to it absorbs it, starts rotting too. But this isn't actually a metaphor. It's chemistry. Your environment works the exact same way. You don't just hear people's habits, you absorb them. Their excuses, their scarcity thinking, their playing small. It spreads quietly like its own version of gas. What do most people miss? Those lemons, they didn't choose to rot. They were just placed next to the wrong ones. They were in the same condition as the others to start. The same is with you. If you're surrounded by people who complain more than they execute, talk about ideas but never act, and normalize staying stuck, it's only a matter of time before it becomes your baseline. So here's the move: who are you sitting next to every day? Because they are shaping your standards and your existence. You want to get in the rooms where execution is normal. That's how you make all the money.