You ‘download’ the priorities and goals of the people and groups around you. Their problems become yours. Their ways of thinking become yours. You may think this is not happening, but if, for example, you take a role at a fast food restaurant, eventually you may have nightmares of overcooked fries. You may claim not to really care about this job, but it is hammered into you every shift not to make certain mistakes. Your mind is not equipped to ignore this. Far below your conscious thoughts; you actually want the customer to leave with a smile. Not because you care. Whether you do or not is irrelevant. This happens because you’ve been reinforced to want a certain outcome with various financial, social, emotional and para-social incentives. Between work, your family and your friends, you often switch from ‘individual mode’ to ‘hive member mode’. You are not yourself anymore.