"I want you to become hyper-aware of the people around you. It's often said that we are a combination of the five people that surround us most. I think there's a lot of truth to this.

In short, hang around failures and they'll rub off on you. Hang around achievers and the same thing will happen. One study I recall looked at dozens of different factors: socioeconomic status, education level, ethnic background, etc. What they found was that success or failure depended much more on the type of people who surrounded you than any of those other factors."