[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

our lives are made up of things or people who have already developed their own belief system from sources in their own particular lives. Essentially, we are all trained to believe what they believe, our mind-set made to reflect their own, and the environment we grew up in.

So what I am saying to you is every last one of us are bits and pieces of every thing and every person we have encountered. Therefore it makes common sense to me that our self-image, self-worth, mental attitude, and self-confidence will rise or fall dependent to a large extent on that of our trainers and the things we are exposed to throughout our lives and this includes the environment we were raised in..

There's really no way around this "oldie but goodie". I'd have gone back and posted this and been done with the entire conversation. I wish I could make it a siggy, because if this isn't the truth then I don't know what is.