We all feel like we are constantly making choices. “ Here’s the thing: People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies, experiencing different job markets with different incentives and different degrees of luck, learn very different lessons.” - Morgan Housel, author of “The Psychology of Money”. Traumatic experiences (or miracles) that happened completely outside of your control.Your social sphere is often based on circumstance (who you grow up around, go to school with, play sports with, become friends with).Most (if not all) of your conditioning/programming growing up (language(s)/symbols you speak and think in, education, religion/ideologies, values).Who you were born to (parents, genetics, race, ethnicity, physical appearance, birth order, disability/chronic illness, gender, sexual orientation).When you were born (generation, zeitgeist, economy, socioeconomic mobility).Where you were born (geographic nation, first/third world, peaceful suburb/war zone).But, what does that really mean when you look at all the things included in that? It means you didn’t have any control over: It’s easy to say that we are the sum total of our genes (nature) and environment (nurture). The reality is that there’s nothing internal or external to you that is a blank slate when you arrive in the world.
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