Thursday; October 1
Who are we hanging out with? As I look at that sentence, I am not sure it is grammatically correct; but I think you get my point. Who is influencing us? In years past, this might have been relegated to who we saw on a day-to-day basis, but in today’s digital world, we can even be influenced by people we have never met. So with global influence in mind, I want us to consider the question, “Are they good for us?”. Do the people we have a physical relationship with make us better? Do the people we follow on social media help us to be our best? One of the things I have come to notice in my lifetime is how contagious anger and hatred can be. Humans have a propensity to get whipped up into a frenzy pretty easily. Again, in days gone by we might be able to mitigate this potential by reducing the size of the crowds (mobs); but caustic people can have a massive footprint today. This is why we need to be very careful who we...