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local said, “I think you will find the people here are pretty much like that as well.” The point of the story is to realize that things pretty well turn out how you expect them to. What are your expectations? Maybe you need inspiration yourself? Read books about successful entrepreneurs and business leaders who faced overwhelming odds of failure but instead chose to not give up and succeed. Or maybe you just need to talk to someone who can help you work through this. The right counselor. The right mentor. The right partner. I think a big part of how we respond to situations and what our expectations are depends on our circle of friends, influencers, and mentors. Are they truly successful people who encountered challenges and took risks and broke through, or are they people who instead felt they were largely helpless and could only pull back when things got difficult? It’s been said before we are most influenced by the five people we spend the most turn around. Maybe it’s time to remove the negative influences in your life in an effort to change your mindset. Think about it. Mark Zweig is Zweig Group’s chairman and founder. Contact him at mzweig@zweiggroup.com.
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stories over and over and sometimes drove us mad. But there was always a point to them. One of his favorites was about the man driving through a town who stopped to ask another fellow on the street what the people of the town were like because he was thinking about moving there. The local resident asked him, “What are the people like where you live now?” The traveller said, “They really aren’t very nice. Everyone is pretty rude and not very neighborly.” The local said, “I think you will find the people here are pretty much like that as well.” “It’s been said before we are most influenced by the five people we spend the most turn around. Maybe it’s time to remove the negative influences in your life in an effort to change your mindset.” A few days later, another fellow is driving through the town and stops, telling the local resident he was thinking of relocating there and asking the same local the very same question about the people who lived there. Of course, the local asked him the same question he asked the other guy a few days earlier, i.e., what the people were like where he lived now. The traveller said, “They are all nice. Really friendly and neighborly.” The
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THE ZWEIG LETTER DECEMBER 8, 2025, ISSUE 1612
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