Mix with the kind of people that inspire you. Thing is, if you spend enough time with a person, that person eventually “rubs off” on you. I remember a time with a certain company where young promising talent were deliberately put in contexts where they spent time with senior executives with the intent that “officialdom could rub off on them.”  With whom do you keep company? Who do you mix with? What is rubbing off on you? Remember, as iron tempers iron, so one man shapes another.