But the same mind operating in a different manner can produce a total collapse. We are guided by our ‘thoughtrons’*. But question arises how our thoughtrons are regulated. There are several theories on it. But the most practical one which a modern man can figure out can be taken.

As the saying goes, “You are product of your environment”. Our surroundings make us think the way we do. Mind is what the mind is fed. The food of our mind is the environment in which we live. The kind of mind food we consume determines our habits, attitudes and personality in all. Each of us has inherited some capacity to develop. But how much of that capacity we have developed and the way we have developed that capacity depends on the kind of mind foodstuff we have been fed. You would be a totally different person had you grown up in a different country. Why? Because you would have been influenced by a different environment.

Most important our growth level, the size of our thinking, our status and life condition is formed by our atmosphere. Prolonged association with negative people makes us think negatively and their insignificant habits are developed in us. On the other hand contact with ambitious people gives us aspiration.

Most of the intelligent men who have dead ended themselves in safe but mediocre positions spend hours in telling that they are satisfied with their work. They do a good job of rationalising. They might really want to work in a challenging situation where they could really grow, but that multitude of suppressive influences had convinced them they are inadequate for bigger things. These people have partially surrendered to their environment.

At a surprisingly young age we set high goals for ourselves to conquer the unknown, but long before we reached the age the suppressive influences, ‘you can not get ahead so better do not bother to try’ went to work. People who tell you it can’t be done, almost always are mediocre or unsuccessful people. Opinions of such people can be poison.

Suppose you tell some average people you plan to own a big goal, and they may laugh at you because they know it’s impossible. But tell this dream to a person who has already done it. He knows it isn’t impossible. I believe we should always accept negative advice only as a challenge to prove that you can do it. We can simply make our environment work for us, not against us. We should throw this thought poison out of our environment, while talking about people we should stay on their positive side and try to think right towards them. In real sense we can never grow if we leave everyone behind.

Some may argue that others have been born with special talent they lack but desire to have. This is true, but they have to cultivate the habit of that ability some time, if not in this life, then in some other. We observe this information in the process of evolution.

For each result to take place there is some proposal. God never created garbage so lets have some great proposals.

*Thoughtrons, The fundamental unit of our thoughts. Sri Sri Parmahansa Yogananda (An Indian maestro of Yoga, 1893-1952) in his discourses on Shrimad Bhagwad Gita.