Environment is among the most powerful and important personality levers. If you’re serious about changing yourself and your life, you must change your environment.*
(Ben Hardy)

Show me the hidden things, the creatures of my dreams, the storehouse of forgotten memories and hurts. Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name.** 
(George Appleton)

We are not only an innovating species, we are also being innovated.

Certainly across the span of history but, thankfully, across the span of a lifetime.

To polish our outside is an easier thing to do, mind, but to innovate who we are inside is more beneficial.

*From Benjamin Hardy’s Personality Isn’t Permanent;
**George Appleton, quoted in the Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer.

Also read:
Matt Ridley’s How Innovation Works;
Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds;
Bernadette Jiwa’s What Great Storytellers Know;
Erwin Mcmanus’ The Barbarian Way;
Ella Frances Sanders’ Lost in Translation.