You Must Choose Your Friends Wisely--Bob Proctor

Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a wonderful book called Man's Search For Himself. In this book, he says, "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice. It is conformity." There you have the trouble today. It's conformity. People acting like everyone else without knowing why, without knowing where they're going. Most people have no idea where they're going. They really don't. And you don't have to be much of a genius to figure this out. Stand back and watch the way most people live, watch the way they operate, the way they talk, the way they walk, where they act, they way they dress. Everything about them is an indication that there's nothing but confusion in here. Karl Menninger pointed out that environment is more important than heredity. You got to really watch what you're doing, who you're mixing with. I am very selective about the people I spend a lot of time with. I don't think I'm better than anybody. In fact, I know I'm no better than anybody. I know we are all the same. We are all just descendants from the same stock. I mean, we're really all the same. There's only one mind. But there's a lot of people that don't understand that they're the same as somebody that's doing very well, so they don't see themselves doing very well. I don't want to spend a lot of time with anybody that's not goal-oriented. I don't want to spend a lot of time with anybody that doesn't know exactly where they're going to go. I don't want to spend time with anyone that wants to play it safe, because I might catch what they've got. We're really extras in our own movie. We see the star, but we're not the star. You're the star of your movie. You are the Academy Award-winning star of your movie. What Shakespeare say? "All the life's a stage." It really is. Now some people are acting like the plays over. They're just going to sit there until the lights go right out. #StoicismSaves, #StoicMindset, #StoicLife, #StoicWisdom, #StoicPhilosophy, #StoicReflections, #StoicLeadership, #StoicMeditation, #StoicQuotes, #StoicPrinciples, #StoicVirtues, #estoicism, #estoic, #philosophy, #reflection, #reflections, #marcoaurelius #seneca #epictetus, #StoicResilience, #StoicEpictetus, #StoicSeneca, #StoicMarcusAurelius, #StoicCommunity, #StoicGrowth, #StoicPersonalDevelopment, #StoicValues, #StoicLiving, #StoicMindfulness, #StoicEmpowerment, #StoicInspiration #StoicMethod