#5: Think about who you surround yourself with
In what connection have you heard that sentence before?
As slightly mentioned before we apes have developed a very complex brain, within something called mirror neurons reside. These neurons makes it possible for us to very delicately mirror other people already from we are babies, and we do this more or less without knowing it. We do it because it makes us feel good, and we do it to make others feel good.
And this is one of the reasons why people who spend a lot of time together will with enough time become clones of each other.
With this knowledge it’s much easier to figure out, how you are going to be in 5 years. You will become very much like the people you surround yourself with.
And if you want to become part of a society, this is absolutely crusual! This is so obvious that even our best polititians don’t recognice it and who time after time create huge ghettos, where immigrants and socially challanged individuals are stored away to only learn from each other and create their own micro societies with rules and ethics far from the rest of the country.
Conclution: Mix with the locals and make sure you are not only meeting up with other Erasmus students or expats from your old home country.
The easy solution is not always the best one in the long run.