Jim Kwik explains the "average of five" principle: you become like the five people you spend the most time with. Mirror neurons make you unconsciously imitate their words, actions, and habits, from smoking to integrity. Choose your circle carefully.
Who you spend time with is who you become. You hear this all the time, right? You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. You spend time with 9 broke people, you're gonna be number 10 because we have something in our nervous system called mirror neurons. And so we're constantly imitating people around us unconsciously. We're imitating their words and those words affect our nervous system. If your friend's friend smoke, you're more likely to smoke 'cause we're imitating what we see around us like children. We tend to have the same thinking patterns and thoughts as the people around us also as well. And we know those thoughts affect our beliefs and our actions. We tend to model their integrity, their level of honesty, their level of impeccability, have similar routines, habits, and those habits become us.
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