Where you will be in five years depends on two choices you make today.
Charlie Munger: Unless you change the people you hang out with and the books you read, you'll be exactly the same five years from now.
Have you ever thought about where you'll be in five years?
Better than you are now, or stay the same, or even worse?
Where you will be in five years depends on two choices you make today:
1. The people around you determine your height
The people we interact with every day are invisibly shaping the way we think and behave.
It's easy to become negative if you surround yourself with people who complain about life and settle for the status quo. On the other hand, if you surround yourself with people who are positive and motivated, you will catch on to their energy.
If you talk about gossip and trivia with your friends and colleagues, you will become more and more lazy before you know it.
If you talk to friends and colleagues every day about how to solve problems and how to improve yourself. Over time, you will also become more purposeful and will start to actively learn new skills.
That's the power of the environment.
If you want to get better, the first thing you need to do is optimize your social circle.
2. What you read determines what you know
In addition to the people he hangs out with, Munger also mentions the books he reads.
Reading is the most direct way to acquire new knowledge, we read the autobiography of a celebrity, we can understand his people and things, work to learn his views for our own use, equivalent to spending dozens of dollars to buy a lifetime of experience.
Especially business books, you will find that it is more useful than buying tens of thousands of dollars of courses.
Many people overlook the importance of reading books.
As Warren Buffett says, "Read 500 pages a day." Knowledge accumulates like compound interest, and in the end it benefits you infinitely."
The essence of reading is to feed yourself new information that will subtly change your thinking and behavior.
If you want to be a better person in five years than you are now, take the first step today. Five years from now, you will thank yourself for making changes now.
