The in is the out
We are the curator of our mind, and our life is the exhibit.
"Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior." - James Clear, 2018
"The books we read shape our thoughts, which shape our world." - Naval Ravikant, 2014
"You are the sum of your influences." - Austin Kleon, 2012
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." - Jim Rohn, 1977
"Garbage in, garbage out." - William D. Mellin, 1963
"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do." - Carl Jung, 1950
"You are what you eat." - Mantel Pargeter, 1942
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." - Winston Churchill, 1943
"The mind is like a garden. What you plant in it will grow there." - James Allen, 1903
"We become what we give our attention to." - Epictetus, circa 100 AD
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think." - Buddha, circa 500 BC
"We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle, circa 350 BC
The things we choose to input into our lives become our lives. They are us. We are them. People have known this for literally thousands of years.
The spaces we inhabit.
The information we consume.
The movies we watch.
The people we see.
The hobbies we pursue.
We are the curator of our mind, and our life is the exhibit.
Choose every piece with extreme intention and our exhibit will be remarkable, AKA, eat healthy, take care of our body, consume high quality sources of information, surround ourselves with people who nourish us, and our life will be something we can be proud of.
Or: just eat whatever’s quick, think about a workout plan for when “things are less crazy,” scroll social and read headlines only, and hang out with whoever’s available even if they make us feel like shit (but, hey, at least our calendar is full). We can actually make those choices if we want.
But if we do, just promise me we aren’t going to pretend we don’t actually know why our lives have an constant baseline level of humming anxiety.
