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Self-improvement
A Vital Ingredient for Success
Find good people
We all need people. We can’t live in a vacuum. But the one thing we can make sure we do, is to surround ourselves with the right people.
Warren Buffett famously says:
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
He’s so right.
We don’t always choose the people who come into our lives. We don’t choose the people we work with.
But we can choose who to let in. We can choose who we get close to.
And we should not be letting in toxic people.
There’s a difference between people who complain and people who are really toxic.
Sometimes people complain and rant. But they’re not necessarily toxic. If anything, they get it out of their system and move on.
Toxic people on the hand will create an atmosphere of negativity. Toxic people bring you down. They criticize you and make you feel bad about yourself.
Another thing to look out for is toxic positivity. But, constantly telling you about people who have succeeded when you in fact are not anywhere close on your journey to…
