Nick Perry argues that environments shape us invisibly, like a scent clinging to clothes. Spend time around gossipers or complainers and you'll absorb those habits. You become what you consistently stand next to, so assess what your environment smells like.
If you spend your whole day in a room of people smoking weed, you'll smell like weed, even if you never touched it. If you spend your whole day in a perfume store, you'll carry the scent, even if you didn't buy anything. See, that's because your environment leaves a mark. So if you spend time around people who gossip, you'll start gossiping about others too. If you spend time around people who complain, then you'll begin to see problems everywhere. In life, you solely become what you consistently stand next to. So the real question is simple: what does your environment smell like? Because whether you realize it or not, you are absorbing it.
