Prologue: Where Does True Change Begin?

PART 1.
The best changes come from the environment.
1.
Every hero is a product of circumstance.
Environment is more powerful than you think | Environment shapes me | Remember the choices I make | The mind and environment influence each other | Who are you meeting?

2.
How Your Environment Shapes You
Possibilities vary depending on the circumstances | Adapt to the circumstances or constantly fight against them | Every circumstance sets an upper limit | Our worth is relative | Your role can change

3.
Create an environment that promotes positive stress.
Why Stress and Recovery Are Both Necessary | Shifting Focus from "Self" to "Environment"

PART 2.
Where do people grow?
4.
Take a fresh look at life
Why You Need Time for Rest and Recovery | Create Reset Time in Your Life | Journal for a Better Life | Develop a Weekly Plan with Journaling

5.
Create your own sanctuary
Small mistakes can lead to major problems | The importance of a morning routine | Focus on the important things in life first | Create a personal space to write in your journal every day

6.
Eliminate the unnecessary things in life
Change is always difficult | If you want a rich life, get rid of unnecessary things | Eliminate distractions | Eliminate bad choices so you can focus on your goals | Stay away from toxic people | If something needs to be done, do it now.
7.
Change the default selection
New choices become entrenched and become addictive | How to escape a toxic environment

8.
Think about the failure situation
Anticipate negative stimuli | Create alternative behaviors to bad behaviors | Visualize the process of achieving your goals

PART 3.
Design the optimal environment
9.
Include a 'force function' in the environment.
The Secret to a Performance-Driven Environment | The Demands of Situations Create Amazing Abilities | Drive Action with Coercion | Create Immersive Situations

10.
Clear intentions are needed, but more is needed.
Be a flexible learner | Give 100 percent to change | Sometimes you have to push yourself | Jump right into new situations | How to deal with negative emotions

11.
Grow towards your higher goals
Set goals higher than your abilities | Compete with people who are good at it | Compete openly to bring out the best in you | Apply what you learn immediately | The best mentors are the ones you paid for | Learn through repetition, even to the unconscious level | Observe the process of change | You need field experience and failure | Keep changing for another success | Don't be satisfied with the present or intoxicated by success | The environment creates energy

12.
Where you are now changes your future.
Working in a New World | Changing Your Environment Boosts Energy, Productivity, and Creativity | Smart Life-Changing Techniques | Innovating Your Surroundings, Not Yourself

13.
Who you're with makes a difference
Unique associations breed innovative results | The power of collaboration harnessed by top entrepreneurs | If you want to make a difference, break away from your current environment.

14.
Decide not to live like yesterday
Remember the past, but don't be bound by it | Create a tomorrow different from today.

Epilogue: If you walk the same path you always take, your life won't change.

If you want the best change, passion, effort, and will are not the answer.
The answer to change and growth lies in the 'environment and situation' we are in!

The resolutions we make every year, such as quitting drinking, smoking, dieting, exercising, and studying English, always end up lasting only three days.
Is that all?
We have tried to change and constantly challenge ourselves to become better, but our efforts have not lasted and have ended in failure.
Why is this so? Is it a lack of determination and will? Is it a matter of genetics and habits? Or is it simply a lack of effort? The answer is no.
The problem is that we have been pouring our passion into the wrong places and in the wrong ways.
What we need for growth is not will, effort, or passion, but a 'change in environment.'

While existing self-help books have prescribed "personal willpower and attitude change" for change and success, "Where the Best Change Begins" fundamentally overturns the solutions to success that have been considered common sense and presents a provocative argument.
The author of this book reveals the core secret in the book, saying, “If you change the environment and conditions of your life, you can easily change without much effort.”

No matter how strong a person's willpower and patience are, they will eventually be swept away by the influence of their environment as time goes by.
The key is to change your environment to one that is helpful to you and to reconfigure it to fit the direction of your growth.
If you want to focus on your work, you need to remove all distractions from your workspace.
If you want to stay healthy, you need to get rid of unhealthy foods from your refrigerator.
If you want to get creative ideas, you need to go out of town for a day or two and relax.
Even if you look up at the sky to see Pluto with the naked eye, you won't be able to see it.
In such cases, instead of willpower and a positive mindset, you need to use a tool called a high-powered telescope.

This book teaches you how to intentionally create an environment that helps you achieve what you want.
It also explains how the environment affects us and changes our lives, and the reasons for this, through various theories and examples.
From small changes in habits or routines to those seeking a paradigm shift in their lives, this book will provide easier and more effective solutions for change.


The author had an alcoholic father, a drug-addicted brother, and a gaming addiction…
A book filled with the secrets to overcoming an unfortunate family history and starting a new life!

When the author was eleven, his parents divorced, his father became an alcoholic, his younger brother became a drug addict, and he became addicted to gaming.
After living like that for 20 years, one day the author packs his backpack and sets off for the other side of his hometown.
The author, who lived a different life away from his usual environment for two years, had an amazing experience.
Due to an unfortunate family history, he had a dark and hopeless childhood, but by changing his environment, he was able to escape from it and become a completely different person.
Through this experience, I realized that it was not my will or attitude, but my environment that made such a dramatic change possible.
This book is a concise compilation of the author's practical experiences from his own life and the results of over ten years of research.
Jim Rohn said, “We become the average of the five people we associate with most.” Charles Darwin said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the most intelligent.”
“The species that survives best adapts to change,” he said.
This means that the environment a person is in is important.
Mencius's mother moved three times for her children's education, and trees grow well in places with good soil and ample sunlight and wind.

What does 'environment' mean?
The author defines the environment as follows:
“We all have internal environments, external environments, and interpersonal environments.
However, in this book, the concept of environment is used as the external environment rather than the internal environment.
For example, it refers to your physical surroundings, the people you choose to associate with, the information you take in, the food you eat, the music you listen to, etc.”
Our lives are a product of our thoughts and choices.
But where do those thoughts and choices come from? They're the result of planting and nurturing specific environmental factors in the garden of our minds: the books we've read, the experiences we've had, the people we've been around.
If you want to settle for the status quo and live as is, you should choose the familiar. However, if you want true growth and change, you should strive to meet people who have a positive influence on you and foster an environment that stimulates growth.


The space I live in, the people I meet, the information I come across, the food I eat…
We ourselves and our lives are products of the environments we choose!

Humans are not fixed, unchanging beings.
Psychologically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually, environment is far more important than genetics.
If you decide what kind of person you want to be and reset your environment accordingly, you can easily get what you want.
Furthermore, we can use the energy we put in to make efforts elsewhere.
Now, set a goal for what you want! Then, eliminate the surrounding environment and noise that hinder you from achieving it, and set your environment in the best possible place to achieve what you want! Then, as the author suggests, you can move toward your desired goal more easily, quickly, and with greater certainty, without blaming your own weak willpower.