GOOD VIBES ONLY

You need to surround yourself with good vibes.

Why?

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- If you bear witness to someone experiencing pain then you’ll often feel pain yourself which shows just how interconnected we really are

- In tight-knit communities, when 1 person feels loss then everyone does

- Even below-the-surface emotions like motivation are contagious and this is reflected in the workplace

- Sitting within 5 meters of a high performer at work can improve an employee’s performance by 15% but sitting within 5 meters of a bad performer can decrease performance by 30%

- Emotions can even be spread virtually such as through texts that are sent in low mood states being felt by the receiver

- We are mirrors reflecting onto each other and the people we surround ourselves with shape us and we shape those around us as well

- Associate with people you admire and aspire to be like where you don’t just get more skilful by doing what they do, but you actually garner the motivation/emotions that lead to improvement

- It also means that it’s much better to work with the scrappy but less talented performer than the star who phones it in

- Try and avoid meeting sadness with sadness and anger with anger, stopping to think and respond differently