It’s often said that we’re the average of the five people we spend the most time with, and while there is no doubt truth in that statement it doesn’t convey the deeper truth that lies within, which is that we are the average of most influential people and ideas in our lives. We will rise or fall to the level of those around us, specifically to those around us who we deeply care about and who we’d change our behavior to be with.
Without a strong peer group who are going somewhere where do you think you’ll end up?