Arthur Brooks
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I want you to take a piece of paper and I want you to write down your 20 best friends.
Okay, can't think of 20?
Fine.
You're 10 best friends.
Now I want you to put R's and D's after their names.
That's not Republican and Democrat, folks.
That's real friend and deal friend.
And you know the difference.
Your deal friend is somebody who's useful to you in a professional way or in a social way.
They get you ahead in some way.
Your real friend is somebody who can't give you anything.
You just love them.
If at least half of the people who are closest to you that you're dealing with the most are not real friends, it's time to actually start working on that problem.
You will be isolated no matter how many people are in your life.
If it's all deal, no real, and you know the difference.
Number three, here's exercise number three.
I want you to think about yourself in five years.
Say you're 27.
Think about yourself at 32.
I'm 58, so I'll be 63.