I recently read a Paul Graham article, How You Know, that stirred up the introspective cogs in my brain. It reminds me of what a friend of mine once talked to me about at 3AM, the end of a fun night.

Personality and one’s mental model of the world are very intertwined. I have always believed in the importance of mindset in influencing one’s life (re: Napolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich). In fact, the whole iron-will-never-give-up thing has been a pretty central part of my life and shaping who I am now. I suppose it’s only now that I am realizing and acknowledging how many different world views there are, how many different interpretations of the same objective scene or event. …what’s that silly quote.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny

I believed this quote on a surface level when I first read it, as one does with any quote. Now, I have actually synthesized it a bit with my world view, through livin a bit more of life.