Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.

The people you spend your hours with are not background; they are a fair description of you. You chose them, or kept choosing them, and what you admire and tolerate in them is already in you or on its way. Their standards quietly become the ones you measure by. This is less a judgment than a mirror that is hard to argue with.

Look at the four or five you actually see, not the ones you would list. Ask what each of them makes easier in you and what each makes harder. Then give more of your week to whoever brings out the version of you that you like.