Sticking to the OP, what has influenced who I am the most?

I'd say working in the family business as a child to earn my pocket money...it set a certain way of thinking that has been written all over my life ever since.

Having my heart crushed a long time ago by a girl who had serious baggage of her own, that escapade started me off down an unfortunate path that only recently I'm coming out of.

Reading The Game and the plethora of personal growth material l that followed has had a lot of effects, some good, some bad.

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