The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Interpretation
Surrounding yourself with the right people can accelerate your personal growth.
This quote by Reid Hoffman emphasizes the powerful influence that the company we keep has on our personal development. By associating with individuals who embody the traits and behaviors we aspire to, we can more rapidly and effectively transform ourselves, as their attitudes and practices can inspire and guide us toward our goals.
In practice
During a workshop on personal development, I shared this quote to encourage participants to evaluate their social circles.
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of womenβs silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.
Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.
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