Maintaining Relationships is the Easiest/ Most Difficult for the Successful
The high cost of success: navigating and maintaining meaningful relationships is the biggest challenge for the top-tier
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Introduction
While this note may lead to some controversy with a particular fraction of the audience who may feel that the idea being shared in this note isn’t true.
However, if you choose to continue reading with an open mind, I can assure you (based on personally knowing a lot of people who have achieved success in their life), that the idea shared in this note is absolutely true in every sense of the word.
So, let’s hope you’ve parked your senses of judgment aside and you’re ready to read about “why successful people tend to have very few people in their life that (truly) matter to them?”
Why does success create distance with people?
First things first. I’d like to clarify two things:
01 - The idea of this note is not to say that successful people avoid human interactions/ relationships.
02 - The idea shared in this note is indicative and may not apply to all successful people in equal measure.
Now that those disclaimers are out of the way, let’s understand the life and the mindset of the successful people, (and people at large).
We live in a world, where a lot of people tend to look at successful people as an easy opportunity to piggyback on and give a boost to their life/ career/ business.
Every successful person will have at least a handful stories where they were either taken for a ride, or were treated in an extremely fishy manner because of their “status”.
Plus, successful people tend to be extremely focused, passionate about their craft and they find it difficult to connect with people who don’t share the same passion/ interests.
One more aspect in the lives of successful people is the limited bandwidth with respect to time, energy and emotional balance to expend, at large.
If you have understood the implications of these situations, just reading them would have made you feel overwhelmed and unsettled at some level.
Now imagine living a life 24*7 when you have to keep dodging situations like this in one way/ form or the other, almost all the time.
This is why/ how successful people tend to maintain a safe distance from people they don’t relate with on an intellectual, spiritual, emotional and financial level.
Of course there are (and will be exceptions) to every situation.
The bigger point worth absorbing is the impact of all the aforementioned reasons why successful people tend to keep a distance from the world at large and don’t get affected by the judgment(s) that come their way.
Conclusion
If you’re someone who tends to have a large circle of friends, people who you manage to stay connected with, I suggest you start becoming selective with who you choose to share your emotional energy with/ for.
You don’t need to discard anybody from your life.
You just need to be more mindful regarding who you choose to spend more time (and energy with)
Your Thoughts!
If you’ve reached till this point of the post, I’m sure you must have some thoughts/ feelings/ opinions about what you’ve just read.
I’m done sharing what’s on my mind, and now is your turn to share your POV.
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Prompt used to create the image for the note
P.S.: Image made on Meta AI using the prompt, “Imagine a really successful person celebrating their birthday in a high-end restaurant with a selective few over lavish food and drinks on the table”