We become the combined average of the five people…

Page 92 We become the combined average of the five people we hang around the most .

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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Stop comparing outward; compete only with yesterday. Quit the race against everyone else entirely; the only worthy contest is against the person you were yesterday, competing with yourself to become a little better than you were. And mind your company, because you slowly become the average of the five people you spend the most time with — choose those five as carefully as a crew. Refuse to be your own victim, and quiet the crowd. When you catch yourself thinking some person or situation is ruining your life, apply the old iron prescription: it is you who is doing that to yourself, and you who can stop. […] Put a high value on the pilot in the seat, because the world will quote you back your own price. Surround yourself with people who lift the average, because you will become like them whether you intend to or not. Be fierce with your standards and gentle with your failures, remembering always that you may do a bad thing but you are not a bad person. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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