Win the game by getting close to the winners

The more I dive into the topic of how our environment influence our behavior, the more I see this pattern…

To keep this fresh, I’m going to try a new angle to this: there is no reason why you should go through all the lows of the process. You don’t have to change the game to be on top of it. At all. Hell if you are just getting started at doing something you feel could empower you, you don’t even know what the game is. There is no proud in slacking in the pain, thinking it’s just something you have to go through. People smarter than you and I, have spent their life studying finance, marketing, meditation, and after these decades of experiences and gathered knowledge, wrote in all in a book . It’s there, why would you make yourself go through the tedious work and try to figure it out on your own?

Now don’t get me wrong, you do have to make some mistakes, you do have to learn at first hand. But minimize it as much as possible! And you do that by simply allowing your environment to influence you… because you created it. A lot of successful people, as they were started in their journey, wanted to taste what it looked like. Eric Thomas went to college, to get into that environment, a lot of successful people spent their free time in the lobby of luxurious hotels. They wanted to be in that environment of success, to feel it, see it, try it. This allowed them to create serendipity and meet the right people, but it wasn’t an accident, they provoked it.

Ultimately, success is infectious: it just rubs on you the more you get around it. Mindset, ideas, habits, they’re all something you can learn by simply dealing with a someone that knows what works and what doesn’t. Trying to break these universal principles will not make you good, you need to learn the game first, then leapfrog your way to success.