You become a remix of whoever you copy the most. Choose good source material.

Absorption is automatic. Whatever you spend hours watching, reading and being around gets into your speech, your standards and your sense of what is normal, without any decision on your part. The only real control you have is over the inputs, and most people never look at theirs.

Take an honest inventory of what you consume most and who you spend the most hours near. Ask whether you would be content to resemble that mixture in five years. Then change one input deliberately, since that is easier than trying to change the output.