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"The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured."
This phrase opened my eyes to the importance of surrounding one's self with people and an environment that is conducive to success. Make sure you limit the exposure to the people and the environments that hinder you from reaching your full potential.
I am an active member of The Can Do Society (www.candosociety.org). Just one activity of the Can Do Society is a book club and this month we are reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. In Outliers Maxwell tries to explain why some people succeed far more than others. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how people succeed, we should spend more time looking around them. Success is not only the intelligence and ambition of a man or woman, but such things as their family, birth date and sequence of activities.
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