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🌌 Space Marvels, The People We Spend Time With Matters, and Changing Personalities
🌌 Space Marvels, The People We Spend Time With Matters, and Changing Personalities
🛰️ Isn’t it cool that humans live in space?
Even though it’s been around for a while, I’m amazed that the International Space Station is still running. It’s now in its third decade of service!
It’s a technological marvel, as well as a political one as it requires collaboration with nations that aren’t always on the same side. The collaborating agencies were NASA from the USA, JAXA from Japan, Roscosmos from Russia, ESA from Europe, and CSA from Canada.
There are many plans to continue to use it to advance our understanding of space, health, and more. For the USA, it is the stepping stone for the Artemis Program, an attempt to establish humans living on the moon as part of the path to send humans to Mars.
What do you think - will we have humans living on Mars in our lifetime?
🌿 In today’s newsletter:
Who we spend our time with changes who we become
You can change your personality
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Career tips
👭 Choose wisely who you spend your time with
You are influenced by the people and messages you choose to spend time with. Who you work with, who you spend social time with, and what you listen to or watch in the media—these things impact you! They impact your beliefs, thinking patterns, and ultimately the person you become.
There is an old saying that "you are a combination of the five people you spend the most time with." If this is even partially true, who are those people? And are they helping you to become the person you want to be?
Often this idea is called the Social Proximity Principle. This principle from the study of Psychology simply states that people closer together in a physical environment are more likely to form a relationship than those farther away.
🧲 To make a comparison to science, Newton's Law of Gravitation makes a similar statement—the gravitational pull we feel from an object increases as we get closer to it. This is an example of how human interactions often work similarly to scientific principles!
Frequent interaction with people you spend a lot of time within your life will cultivate a relationship. That relationship will grow and grow until it becomes a part of you. So remember, you can choose which relationships you would want to influence your life.
The challenge here is to make the choice. Do you want to keep working with the people you’re currently working with? Are there friends in your life that perhaps aren’t influencing you in a positive way? Are there people you want to interact more with that you aren’t right now?
Let the Social Proximity Principle work for you in such a way that will lead you to become the person you want to become.
💁♀️ Get closer to people you want to learn from and become more like. They'll pull you forward with them, and your life and career will thank you for it!
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book recommendation
Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story by Benjamin Hardy, PhD
✍🏽 Have you ever taken a personality test and while it perhaps felt like it helped you understand yourself a bit better, it also made you feel stuck because that’s not necessarily the personality you always want to have?
In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality - a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors - is innate and unchanging.
🧗🏼♂️ Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead. He offers practical, science-based advice for personal-reinvention.
Want to open your mind to changing your personality? Read this book!
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