Frankly, you’re better off ditching the fake friends that come with newfound success. Powerful, accomplished people know something you don’t, the company they keep. In short: successful men aren’t friends with losers. Their time is too precious; they can’t afford to lose the psychic energy that losers cipher off.
Nevermind what a “loser” is no one exactly defines it but it’s unclear whether it’s actually a judge of character or just a judge of someone’s bank account and career success. Being around people who are generally negative not the same thing as people who disagree with you, which is a good thing will thwart your success. If you don’t have friends with any career aspirations, you either don’t have any either.
It’s unclear what comes first: the friends, or the shared loser attitude, but they seem inextricably linked, and apathy is typically regarded as viral in nature something you can absolutely catch from the bad crowd.
Being around people with more self-control helps us resist temptations that might derail our goals. Positive, like-minded friendships affect our health, our work environment. And really successful people keep up with multiple networks of different types of people in different sectors that broaden, but also give momentum, to moving forward in careers.