Environment

“The smart people adapt to their surroundings.
The powerful people make their surroundings adapt to them.”
~some random quote from someone

The first layer of meaning I get is that powerful people is arrogant enough that people cannot change them and have to adapt to them.
The second layer is that the powerful people are strong enough to make people do what they want them to do

The third layer is that the powerful people realizes that the environment needs to be changed to facilitate the attitude that they want.

We are humen and our surroundings affect us.