The Connection Between Previous Experiences And Personal Success
Your sources of information significantly shape your identity. Implicitly, they also influence the standards you adopt.
What you consume as information strongly impacts how you perceive yourself and what reaches those around you. How you act in different situations comes from your past.
We call the ‘past’ all the experiences, stories, true or not, that you’ve accumulated. You’ll make certain decisions if you’ve consumed more of Dostoevsky’s novels and other decisions if you’ve read more of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Your preferences will be different if you’ve grown up on the streets and all you read are newspapers with many pictures.
Be mindful of your thoughts, as they become your words. Be mindful of your words, as they become your actions. Be mindful of your actions, as they will become your habits. Be mindful of your habits, as they become your character. Be mindful of your character, as it becomes your destiny,” says a Chinese proverb.
