How we form our identity

Margaret Mead extolled the value of “spiritual and mental ancestors” inhow we form our identity — those people to whom we aren’t related but whose values we try to cultivate in ourselves; role models we seek out not from our immediate genetic pool but from the pool of culture the surrounds us, past and present. Seneca saw in reading, one of the oldest and most reliable ways to identify and contact these cultural ancestors, a way of being adopted into the “households of the noblest intellects.”

That sounds like good advice to me  Why complain about our crappy parents, stupid friends and coworkers  They don't have to live in your heads  They only provide limited life support  How you think is up to you  Again the title of this blog is a message to all the people out there who don't have a choice about what rattles their behavior  This place is simply a way to think differently and to share it with those who happen to stumble upon the thoughts of another 

by By Maria Popova  provided by www.brainpickings.org