CHANGE YOUR THINKING CHANGE YOUR LIFE
He tracked these people
for many years. Many of them took what they had learned and did
wonderful things with it. They built profitable businesses and suc-
cessful careers.
However, many of the graduates failed to turn the informa-
tion and ideas they had learned into later success. Why not? When
he went back and surveyed them, he found that invariably they
had returned to the same group of people they had been associat-
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ing with before they had taken the advanced courses on achieve-
ment. As a result, they went back to the same old ways, the same
old habits, the same old customs and manners of living. Because
they were immersed in their old reference groups, nothing
changed for them.