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.”