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Golden Age of Inner Peace 8 imagine how to become that person. A group of researchers set out to discover the source of inner peace. They carried out an experiment using two six-year-old boys, Johnny and Billy, with similar personalities and family backgrounds. They put the boys in two separate rooms for two hours and observed their behavior. Johnny's room contained many modern toys such as trains, robots and video games, while Billy's room contained some dried grass and horse manure. After two hours the boys were released. Johnny was throwing all the toys around the room, and when asked why he was crying he said that he missed his mom. When asked why he didn't play with the toys he replied that he no longer wanted them; the train was noisy, the robot and video games were boring and he wanted to see his mum straight away. In the other room, Billy was happily singing to himself in the corner. When asked why he was not calling for his mum, he replied that his mum would pick him up soon, and when asked how he could stay in a room with just grass and horse manure, Billy replied, "Wow is that horse poop? That must mean there is a pony somewhere for me to play with." The researchers concluded that external factors have only a minor influence on an individual's