Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

Can you relate?

29 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Codie Sanchez delivers a short monologue about the social costs of rapid personal growth. She explains that when you outgrow people, it can make others uncomfortable—comparing it to holding a mirror up that forces them to confront their own inaction—leading to loneliness and the loss or distancing of previously close relationships.

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When you're outgrowing people it's uncomfortable for the people that you've outgrown. They don't like to see that you are moving forward at such a fast progression which I wish it wasn't that way. But what typically happens is when you grow a lot it's this. It's like holding a mirror in front of somebody else and saying all the time why aren't you doing the things that you can and the things that you could be capable of. And when people see that mirror non stop they start to look at you and think I don't like what I'm looking at. It can get a little lonely, you know, having built a bunch of stuff and had some success and I've had many times where over the years the person that I've become is not the person that the people I love loved. You know that's not saying that you get rid of friends but typically they'll get rid of you.