Why Your Friends Make You Either Rich or Poor
This is how you get Elon Musk into your inner circle.
If you feel like there’s no support from anyone around you and people aren’t even interested in the same things as you, this text will give you the solution.
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“You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with.”
I heard this sentence years ago.
It made sense, and I agreed with it.
But looking back, I realized that I didn’t understand what it truly meant.
I couldn’t put it into action.
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Let me explain what I thought this sentence was about
and how this sentence is mostly taught.
The five people you surround yourself with are the five people you spend the most time with.
For most of you, that’s going to be the ones you live with, like parents, partners, and children, and the people at work.
Who are the five people you spend the most time with?
You’ll recognize that your thinking is somehow the average of what those five people think about.
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For example:
You’re at work and in your free time with the same people you went to school with, and you still live with your parents.
The topics you talk about, the stuff you’re interested in, and so on haven’t really changed over the last few years.
Right?
Do you think it will be easy or difficult for you to start a new hobby and follow some new interests?
Remember, the people around you still have their old habits and interests.
One of two things will happen:
Either you’re too deep in your circle to even start developing those new habits or interests,
or you will fall out of your circle and stand there alone.
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Here’s a thought experiment:
What do you think will happen if you surround yourself with five professional football players?
You talk with them in your free time,
you chat with them,
maybe you watch some games together.
They’ll explain things about the game to you.
You’ll understand it better and better.
Eventually, you’ll start playing football
and become better and better.
Do you agree?
Psychology says this is the natural process of adaptation.
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What do you think will happen if you surround yourself with successful entrepreneurs?
With millionaires?
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But you can’t start meeting Elon Musk for lunch, right?
Of course not.
But here’s the point where I didn’t fully understand this sentence.
Especially nowadays, it’s not just the five people you surround yourself with in person.
No, it’s also the people you watch on social media
and even the people you think about.
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Now we’re talking about a whole different level.
Where it was once extremely difficult to choose who you surround yourself with, now you have significant influence.
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2moAgree, and I also think that "follow" should anyway be replaced with "support" in all social media (even if you are Elon Musk).