Aleksandra Galert's Blog: I'm thinking about... - Posts Tagged "power"

Have you ever noticed that many of the most successful people ever were staying together? Like, for example, Albert Einstein, who knew Maria Skłodowska-Curie for years. They were spending holidays together, meeting at the science conferences, working together for the League of Nations. Or the famous Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein, where she was accompanied by such icons like Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway or James Joyce, to name just a few (you can see it in the Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris”). You must have been amazed listening about the famous meetings in Els Quatre Gats thinking: “Wow! It must have been extraordinary! So many so talented and famous people in one place!”.

The thing is that yes, they were very talented, but what we can assume is that without those meetings and company of each other, they would probably be neither that successful nor famous. We think that they met when they were already on top, but it’s not true. It was often the starting point of their careers. You must know the saying: when in Rome, do as the Romans do. A group of people with quite similar interests and goals helps to motivate and inspire each other. When you enter a group of people where success and wealth are something normal, you start becoming like them. Things that earlier seemed impossible or very hard to achieve, suddenly become as usual as eating breakfast. You learn what your fellows do, you start sharing their way of thinking and thanks to this, you become like them – in a positive meaning of this phrase. In such a group, you can remain individual and special, but you’d be surrounded by people, who believe in the things you do, who encourage you to move forward, who don’t say that something is impossible. Such group is a power.

Of course, it’s not easy to find such a group, especially if you’re at the beginning of your way. But it’s crucial to work on it, look for the people who succeed in what you want to succeed in, learn from them and share your ideas with them. As Jim Rohn said: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” So if people who surround you are not motivating you and they don’t believe success is at all possible, don’t count on big results on your side. Of course, you can’t change your family, but you can reduce the negative influence they have on you (if they do), by spending time with people who encourage you to be your best self. As I said, it’s not easy to find such people, but it’s worth the effort.