Research shows the people in the center of the web become the wealthiest.

Are your broke friends.

Keeping you poor?

Or is that just.

A myth that we all believe?

Researchers actually.

Ran a study across an entire country to test it. They analyzed millions of phone calls and half a million bank accounts to see.

If who you talk to.

Could determine how much you make. To help visualize this, think of a giant spider web.

If every person.

Is a dot on the web, then every phone call is a thread on the Web connecting them to all their friends.

And contacts. Some people sat.

Right in the middle, connecting lots of different groups. Others, on the outside, only connected to a few.

Here's what they found.

People sitting in the center of the web, the ones who hold the network.

Together, way.

More likely to be rich. People on the edges, way more likely to be poor. It didn't matter what job they had or how smart they were.

Their spot.

In the web predicted their income incredibly well. So if you want to make more money, you don't necessarily have to dump your broke friends, just make some.

Rich ones, too.