And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

The key to success is to find patterns where others see randomness.

The choices you make in your 20s will shape your life for decades to come.

The mind is an instrument for navigating reality.