Be careful who you choose as your friends, because you tend to imitate them.

Think carefully about who you will spend time with, because you tend to imitate the people around you. That is the message from this article from BBC, “How Your Friends Change Your Habits – For Better or Worse.” Excerpt:

“There is good reason to believe that when we use normative behaviour it makes us feel good because we’re connecting with a social group,” says Higgs. “If you are with a new social group, you are more likely to imitate behaviours.”

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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