Often, I find myself watching the world. How people interact, react, protect, connect, and find enjoyment. Sometimes it all seems so simple, while other times it becomes incredibly complex. Like a puzzle with missing pieces and a deadline.
Why?
Perhaps one of the biggest questions humanity may never fully answer. Yet, through psychology, we can begin to understand how our environments and the influences around us shape our thoughts, behaviors, and decisions throughout our lives.
To break a cycle, we must first change the cycle.
Easier said than done. Someone who has only known one way of life cannot simply wake up one morning and become someone entirely different. Change requires discipline, self-control, understanding, patience, failure, confusion, and sometimes even tearing everything down to build something healthier in its place.
The question is, how much of who you are today was shaped by the influences around you?
And if you could change one cycle in your life, what would it be?