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The scenery you stop seeing right before it starts shaping you anyway.
means The physical environment and conditions immediately around a person or thing.
from Built from 'surround' plus '-ings' — and 'surround' itself traces back to a Latin blend of 'super' (over) and 'undare' (to rise in waves, from 'unda,' wave). The word originally carried a sense of overflowing or flooding around something, like water rising on all sides; only later did it settle into its calmer, everyday meaning of simply encircling or enclosing.
- brain filter
- familiarity makes your brain mute what repeats daily
- behavior link
- messy rooms measurably increase impulsive decisions
- subtle driver
- ambient noise and lighting shift mood more than willpower does
- adaptation cost
- you adjust to decline so slowly you call it normal