Create Genuine Connections with the People Who Make Failure Impossible

I actually had a conversation about emergent behavior with a friend the other night.

He stated that he had started doing things he didn't necessarily agree with and wondered how these behaviors could have become habits.

One potential explanation was that you are the sum of the people you have your five closest interactions with, over time. So your five people in any given situation are likely different from other situations and the average of all of your five person cliques are what effect your behaviors when you aren't actively cultivating them.

The person (actually people) I live with has actually become a daily toxic influence, so as a last resort I'm making the environment switch (moving to San Francisco) to attempt to generate a better environment.