Humans need variety. It’s important that you keep your Miracle Morning feeling fresh and new. As one of my first mentors once told me whenever I complained about my work as a sales rep getting boring, ‘Whose fault is it that it’s boring? And whose responsibility is it to make it fun again?’ This is a great lesson that I’ve never forgotten.

So you sometimes have to do what I call a “crowd-thinner.” One wrong person in your circle can destroy your whole future. It’s that important.

Maud is an exemplar of the saying that to be interesting you must be interested.

Interesting people are good at sharing. You can’t be interested in someone who won’t tell you anything. Being good at sharing is not the same as talking and talking and talking. It means you share your ideas, you let people play with them and you’re good at talking about them without having to talk about yourself.

“Who you spend your time with is probably the most important thing in life,” says Thorp,