Comments on: The Company You Decide To Keep Around You http://bakerthebrand.com/2009/11/28/the-company-you-decide-to-keep-around-you/ Combining Baker's Philosophies on Life With Making Dough Online. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: adminhttp://bakerthebrand.com/2009/11/28/the-company-you-decide-to-keep-around-you/comment-page-1/#comment-205 admin Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:32:16 +0000 http://bakerthebrand.com/?p=4203#comment-205 @Rayson Thanks for the feedback and your insightful outlook. The 2 lessons you point out in particular are of great importance and really flow well with the intention of this post. We really do become the reflection of the company we "choose" to keep. I say "choose" because at the end of the day it was the choice we decided to make for ourselves. @Rayson Thanks for the feedback and your insightful outlook. The 2 lessons you point out in particular are of great importance and really flow well with the intention of this post. We really do become the reflection of the company we “choose” to keep. I say “choose” because at the end of the day it was the choice we decided to make for ourselves.

]]> By: Raysonhttp://bakerthebrand.com/2009/11/28/the-company-you-decide-to-keep-around-you/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Rayson Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:55:26 +0000 http://bakerthebrand.com/?p=4203#comment-203 It's funny I was reading the top part of this post and it reminded me of a sermon at church yesterday combined with a movie I was watching last night, which were both simple facts that are often overlooked. Lesson #1: How often have you made a decision based on the people around you. For example how many opportunities have been missed because you decided to spend time with someone or didn't do something due to the consideration of another person? And now, how many of those people are in your life now? I personally am a big fan of the thought that one is free to do whatever one wants ( with the constrictions of basic law and such) but is one really? "Dropping friends" as stated by the Baker is sometimes essential to growth. I have made countless bad decisions based on ex-girlfriends/ friends that have wasted valuable opportunity costs as well as monetary assets.Lesson#2 that this reminded me of: As Steve Jobs would put it, "A man is defined by the company he keeps". In the big sociology debate of "nuture vs. nature" it is noteworthy to take into account that the influences of our life play a huge variable to who we are today. I know of people who grew up in the same conditions as I did and are drug dealers and/ or in jail (thankfully I am not), and aside from the living conditions, we had separate friends who have influenced how we are today.I have noted these two point to reiterate the importance of the baker's post! For growth to happen there must be the right surroundings. You cannot plant a seed in gravel and hope for it to grow, you need the right soil.? Rayson It’s funny I was reading the top part of this post and it reminded me of a sermon at church yesterday combined with a movie I was watching last night, which were both simple facts that are often overlooked.
Lesson #1:
How often have you made a decision based on the people around you. For example how many opportunities have been missed because you decided to spend time with someone or didn’t do something due to the consideration of another person? And now, how many of those people are in your life now? I personally am a big fan of the thought that one is free to do whatever one wants ( with the constrictions of basic law and such) but is one really? “Dropping friends” as stated by the Baker is sometimes essential to growth. I have made countless bad decisions based on ex-girlfriends/ friends that have wasted valuable opportunity costs as well as monetary assets.

Lesson#2 that this reminded me of:
As Steve Jobs would put it, “A man is defined by the company he keeps”. In the big sociology debate of “nuture vs. nature” it is noteworthy to take into account that the influences of our life play a huge variable to who we are today. I know of people who grew up in the same conditions as I did and are drug dealers and/ or in jail (thankfully I am not), and aside from the living conditions, we had separate friends who have influenced how we are today.

I have noted these two point to reiterate the importance of the baker’s post! For growth to happen there must be the right surroundings. You cannot plant a seed in gravel and hope for it to grow, you need the right soil.

? Rayson

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