<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Culture shapes people as surely as a medium shapes... > Culture shapes people as surely as a medium shapes what grows inside it. Norms, rewards, distractions, and institutions become conditions of development. Individuation requires seeing the medium without pretending one can live outside every culture. **Source:** [[livestreams/The Ultimate Christmas Gift — Returning Yourself to Yourself - Workbook|The Ultimate Christmas Gift — Returning Yourself to Yourself]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Culture shapes people as surely as a medium shapes what grows inside it. Norms, rewards, distractions, and institutions become conditions of development. Individuation requires seeing the medium without pretending one can live outside every culture.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-culture-shapes-people-outside-every-culture ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->