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The Bottom Line
We begin life as products of our environment, but we grow and experience and become self-reliant, sometimes overcoming incredible odds. With some exceptions, we can safely and responsibly use our environment to improve our lives or those of our peers.
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The Three Types Of Environment
Physical input affects our senses. Our physical memories affect how we react to similar items or events later in life.
Mental or intellectual input affects our education. Formal schooling lasts for about 17 years, depending on personal, societal, and financ...
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Self-Reliance
Our environment may surround us, and heredity may lie within us, but don’t forget that we also have initiative. We can make decisions if we wish to change. It’s not always easy — damned hard, sometimes.
But we humans are too full of knowledge, dreams, and spirit to float through life, alway...
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Environmental Control
Our daily physical, intellectual, and emotional changes can bring good or bad results. It’s up to us to react accordingly to create the best situations for ourselves.
Not every situation is controllable, but we do our best to avoid or prepare for them. People make this decision every day, a...
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Nature Vs Nurture
As children, our environments (parents, schools, friends) usually determine our actions, but later we might realize our family’s bloodline (natural skills or abilities) has already decided for us. Both sides of this coin are powerful motivators, but there’s a third option...
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Our self-esteem is vital for personal well-being and happiness. People with higher self-esteem are more satisfied with their lives.
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Monitoring Your Self Talk
Often if we pay attention to our thoughts we may find that we are processing a lot of negative self talk. This knowledge can sometimes be distressing at first and make us feel somewhat powerless over what thoughts are permeating our minds and our lives.
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The encouragement to think
Few of us dedicate their time to solitary thinking that can restore our spirits and move our lives ahead.
When we spend time in quiet thinking, we create an occasion for the mind to make some order and understand itself. Emotions and feelings become easier to name, we grow less scared...
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