Embrace the knowledge you get from other people

You’ll be surprised by how much this can help you.

Jacob K Thomas
5 min readJun 10, 2022
Photo by Pch.vector on Freepik

In our lives, we meet a lot of people. Those people that we meet will leave us with a lot of different feelings. They can be good or bad, it just depends on the situation. A lot of times we make decisions on how we are going to accept the information we are given. Sometimes we don’t even know how to really go about it all.

Over the last few years, I’ve really thought about the people I’ve come across in my life. I think that we don’t really understand how much influence people and things really have over us. At a young age, we are a sponge. Everything can influence us. The problem is, we don’t even realize what has touched us and what hasn’t touched us.

I was listening to a program where the host was telling a story about their mother and how when she was a kid, the simple words, “This is the last amount of money I have.” From that point forward, this always made the lady's mother worry about running out of money. This in turn created a frugal person. Seems crazy when you hear it, but the thing is, it’s not so strange. It is very normal because everyone is different. We take in things in our own way.

On the other side of things, we shouldn’t let certain things completely change who we are. Rather we…

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Jacob K Thomas

Writer. Cook. Traveler. Photographer. Featured on the Food Network and newspapers around America. https://jacobkthomas.com/