“I knew all those you mentioned here”. Gisso, knowing is unhelpful. You want to learn, but you don’t learn through the accumulation of knowledge. You learn and really “know” once your behavior changes. I cannot change you.

Yes, culture and the people you meet with influence you. Very much so! It takes a degree of humbleness and acceptance to acknowledge. Such facts, however, is not sufficient to alleviate yourself from responsibility.

You say there is no sense of responsibility in people. That to me is a projection of an inner quality. Ask yourself these three questions: 1) Where do I play the victim in my life? 2) What role do I play in the outcomes I label “failures”? 3) How can I be more responsible?

Read this other article I wrote to solve the problem of problem solving and returning to an original state.