Why Do Successful People Have Fewer Friends?
The one common habit among all successful people and the logic that dictates this habit
Ever heard the phrase, “it’s always lonely at the top?”
Ever wondered why they say that?
The same thing is also often mentioned about super successful people.
One sign of extremely successful people will always be that there’s a very small set of people who have direct access to them.
Let’s illustrate this point better with an example.
Let’s imagine this super successful person to be “Jeff”.
Jeff is a tech billionaire and any resemblance to this example with a real-world personality is merely coincidental. *wink wink*
What would you think would be the process to connect with Jeff?
The entire world may have to go through a protocol, book appointments, request meetings, approach the PR team of Jeff and only then they may get a small window to meet/ connect with Jeff after a couple of weeks, if not months.
Even if a government official wanted to connect with Jeff, they would have to approach the office of Jeff, and Jeff’s team will create space in the calendar (on priority) as per Jeff’s earliest availability.
However, there will always be these few people who can easily pick up the phone and call a private number that connects directly to Jeff. This could be a childhood friend, a roommate from college or maybe even a cousin.
These people are hand selected and clearly instructed to never share the private access number of Jeff.
Do you know why these billionaires (and other successful people at large) act so exclusive with access to them and their time?
Because they understand the importance of saving their energy.
They understand that every relationship, every equation demands energy, time, and over a period of time, time and energy is the only resource that’s scarce in the life of a human and successful people will always do everything in their capacity to give access to their time and energy only to people they hand pick or to people and/or situations that can’t be avoided.
Being selective about people you interact with doesn’t guarantee success but being selective about people you spend your time and energy with definitely plays a vital role in how your life plays out over time.
It’s important to know what kind of people you should be choosing to spend your time with.
However, it’s far more essential to understand who you should avoid on an ASAP basis.
Following are the 5 categories of people you should avoid (and eliminate) from your life sooner than later:
1. The energy vampires
2. The ones who compete and compare
3. The ones who support conditionally
4. The ones who complain and critique all the time
5. The ones who gossip
Although all the 5 categories are fairly self-explanatory; however, if you feel you need more clarity on any of the aforementioned categories, feel free to ask your questions in the comments below.
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