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Place Matters, How Our Environment
Shapes Us
Our environment has a
profound influence on us, particularly our unconscious mind. Consider how a “place”
influenced Vietnam vets addicted to heroin. It was estimated that 20% of
Vietnam vets were hooked on heroin. Even more surprising was that most of them
were able to kick the habit and remain drug. Only 5% went back to their
addiction compared to a 80-90% recidivism rates for most heroin addicts. Why?
They stayed in Vietnam until they cured.
The fact was that their
heroin addiction was linked to Vietnam and by beating their addiction and leaving
Vietnam (Place), the two stayed behind. As David T. Neal, Ph.D. who writes a
blog for Psychology Today said “[P]eople, when they perform a behavior a lot —
especially in the same environment, same sort of physical setting — outsource
the control of the behavior to the environment.”
Eric Weiner NY Times best
selling author of The Geography of Bliss
in a interview with CBS about his newest book, The Geography of Genius said that “Place Matters.”
Indeed place does matter and
influences much of what we do and think. Come learn why this is so and how you
can work with this phenomenon.
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