9Change the Environment
STRUCTURAL ABILITY
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back?
—Clement Stone
When it comes to enabling vital behaviors, we’ve already looked at two sources: improving personal mastery through deliberate practice, and gaining assistance from others by building social capital. For our third and final source for increasing our ability (“Can I do it?”), we move away from human influence altogether and examine how nonhuman forces—the ...
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