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Now, the subject I want to talk to you today is about surrounding yourself with the right people.

Because the way I see it is that you need to surround yourself with a like-minded

people. Because we've all been in a situation where we've walked into a room with the most

pessimistic, the most boring people in the world, and we just feel down about it. It like brings us down, doesn't it? It kind of lowers our energy.

And we know if we surround ourselves with that one person who constantly is complaining about things,

complaining about how the buses are late, how the queues are too long, that there's too much traffic on the road, that the economy's going crazy,

how depressed they are, how depressed their caters, all these things.

It just annoys you and gets you into that mentality.

I know when I'm in it, it just drives me crazy, but I've got to say, hey, I can't be around this person.

Because you've got to take that decision that ultimately, and I can't remember who says

this quote, but they say that you are the sum of the five closest people in your life.

Now, let's think about that.

Go ahead and think about your life right now and think about the five people most closest

to you in where it be friends and family and things like that.

Now, as you think about that, you are ultimately, this person said that you are ultimately

the sum of those people.

The good, the bad, in every way, we're ultimately the sum of that person.

Or those people, sorry.

Now, even if it isn't strictly completely true in every way, it does give us a good indication

that we are the sum of the people we surround ourselves with. So

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