Revelations come from the oddest sources. While watching the Nanny Diaries, I heard Scarlet Johanson say that the biggest problem for any anthropologist studying a particular sociological model is that being exposed to this segmented group of people eventually leads to a total assimilation with them and the only way to stop this process is to immediately remove yourself from that environment.
It's not about your will, it's not about your desire - it's about the environment!
Listen to a little story about me.
I was doing quite well before I came to America. My business was generating OK money and I was wearing nice suit and a long black cashmere coat with a silk scarf. I had never done manual labor and I wasn't planning on trying.
At some point our economy collapses, I loose everything and decide to come to America to start over.
I didn't know anybody, didn't have any money, and the only place that would hire me was a construction company.
My environment all of a sudden changed: from business-development to vinyl siding installation, from cashmere coat to Carhart overall, from a good food to McDonald's, from sedans to pickup trucks, from my friends with college degrees, clean clothing and intact teeth to a bunch of stinky beat-up dentally-challenged rednecks.
At first it felt awkward and in some sense entertaining, but then I started noticing that after a while my entire system of values started to degrade: good food would mean Burger King instead of McDonald's, good clothing would mean Carhart instead of Wal-Mart, good car would mean a beat-up pickup truck with a few hundreds miles on it that you can haul a pile of tools in instead of new shiny sedan (how are you going to put an air compressor in there?)
It didn't even bother me to wear bandanas in public and to admit that I only made $10 an hour!
Life has a funny way of sucking you in until you are too far gone to even know that there's something wrong.
Before I knew it I became a construction worker from some Jerkwater, USA and I actually spent a few years doing construction before I found enough strength to pull myself out of this situation and to come back to being an entrepreneur with clean clothes and clean car.
Now, I don't touch McDonalds or power tools anymore.
If I had told those guys I used to work with my plans to become a successful Internet marketer or my dream of owning my own home-based business, how do you think they would have reacted? Seriously, I would have sounded crazy.
Was it hard to drag myself back up out of the mud? Yes, it was.
Was it worth it? Absolutely!
Again: Being exposed to a segmented group of people eventually leads to a total assimilation with them and the only way to stop this process is to immediately remove yourself from that environment.
What do you do? - 16003
It's not about your will, it's not about your desire - it's about the environment!
Listen to a little story about me.
I was doing quite well before I came to America. My business was generating OK money and I was wearing nice suit and a long black cashmere coat with a silk scarf. I had never done manual labor and I wasn't planning on trying.
At some point our economy collapses, I loose everything and decide to come to America to start over.
I didn't know anybody, didn't have any money, and the only place that would hire me was a construction company.
My environment all of a sudden changed: from business-development to vinyl siding installation, from cashmere coat to Carhart overall, from a good food to McDonald's, from sedans to pickup trucks, from my friends with college degrees, clean clothing and intact teeth to a bunch of stinky beat-up dentally-challenged rednecks.
At first it felt awkward and in some sense entertaining, but then I started noticing that after a while my entire system of values started to degrade: good food would mean Burger King instead of McDonald's, good clothing would mean Carhart instead of Wal-Mart, good car would mean a beat-up pickup truck with a few hundreds miles on it that you can haul a pile of tools in instead of new shiny sedan (how are you going to put an air compressor in there?)
It didn't even bother me to wear bandanas in public and to admit that I only made $10 an hour!
Life has a funny way of sucking you in until you are too far gone to even know that there's something wrong.
Before I knew it I became a construction worker from some Jerkwater, USA and I actually spent a few years doing construction before I found enough strength to pull myself out of this situation and to come back to being an entrepreneur with clean clothes and clean car.
Now, I don't touch McDonalds or power tools anymore.
If I had told those guys I used to work with my plans to become a successful Internet marketer or my dream of owning my own home-based business, how do you think they would have reacted? Seriously, I would have sounded crazy.
Was it hard to drag myself back up out of the mud? Yes, it was.
Was it worth it? Absolutely!
Again: Being exposed to a segmented group of people eventually leads to a total assimilation with them and the only way to stop this process is to immediately remove yourself from that environment.
What do you do? - 16003
About the Author:
About the author: Pavel Becker is a frequent contributor of articles on the subjects of Internet Marketing and Small Business Development. To find out how to make money on-line go to his website PavelBecker.com
