The people around you shape your life. Choose a spouse slightly better than you, pick role models carefully, and deliberately surround yourself with people who push you forward. Your partner matters more than anything else.
The most important thing, aside from the things I've talked about already, is really who you associate with. You want to associate with people that are better than you are. I mean, basically, you'll go in the direction of the people that you associate with. And you want to have the right heroes. You want people— if you want to emulate somebody, you better pick very carefully who you want to emulate. Obviously you can't pick your parents. They're going to have an enormous influence on you, but you don't get a choice on that. But you get choices as you go down the line and who you admire, who you want to copy. And the most important for most people in terms of that decision is their spouse. It's also important in terms of a partner in business, but the partner in life is the most important one. You want to pick a spouse that's a little bit better than you are.
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