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Hey there, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am your host Elizabeth Benton, and I'm really glad that you're tuning in to chat with me again.

One thing that's really been on my mind is the notion that we are profoundly influenced by what we put into our minds.

I love the quote that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with, but for a while, that really stressed me out because I felt like I wasn't in control of it.

I was working in a job where people I spent the most time with were people I worked with and I didn't really want to be the average of them.

I didn't know what to do and I felt like I just couldn't really apply that to my life in the kind of way that I wanted to, but I was wrong.

I felt like at that time I had to work with these certain people and even people in my family weren't as supportive or uplifting as I would like.

They certainly wouldn't be the people I would choose if I was becoming the average of these five people, but then I realized that I was thinking about it wrong.

And now, you know who I surround myself with most often?

Absolutely, anybody I want because I read books that are written by people who have achieved great things.

And I listen to podcasts hosted by people who motivate me and inspire me and challenge me and I'm careful of the kind of things I watch on TV, you know, the average American watches like something like four hours of TV a day.

And those things influence you and they are a factor in becoming the average of the people we're spending the most time with.

And I kind of don't want to be the average of the real housewives of Atlanta, you know what I mean?

Dessant. So if you want to create change in your life, you have to look at your inputs.

Are they reflective of the kind of path that you want to be on?

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