People often live by what friends and social media think, even though those voices aren't involved in their actual lives. The difference between taking useful advice and letting others' expectations run your life comes down to one question: are you choosing, or are you performing for judgment?
Why are people so influenced by friends, peers, or social media is another one of those examples? They're not involved in the situation. All right, it's a good question. Sometimes it's good to listen to those voices because they're seeing things I'm not seeing from within. So I'm not actually going to tell you don't listen to the world around you. I'm going to tell you don't live by the world around you. And those are 2 very different situations. If I'm living by the world around me, I'm constantly thinking, well, What are my friends gonna think? Well, who's gonna say this if I do this? And you're not living your life. Whose life are you living? You live by peer pressure.
