You become what you think about most of the time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can’t quite grasp what the great man meant by this. Take it too literally and it doesn’t make sense. If you think about banana’s a lot, you don’t become a banana. Perhaps he meant that if you think about misery from your past, you become miserable. Or if you think mostly about what you want to create, you are more likely to create them. There’s a lot of nuance to explore here. Creating, for example, requires more than thinking about what you want a lot. You need to do something to make it happen. Lots of things, in most cases. Yes, I’m picking the quote apart, but I think Emerson would have liked that.