Eric Siu explains why he cut ties with his high school friends, who stayed stuck in routines at the rec center and YMCA while he pursued self-improvement through reading Tony Robbins and applying for internships. He chose growth over loyalty to friends who teased him and weren't moving forward.
You talked about cutting off your high school friends. Yeah. Why? In high school, people roast each other all the time, shit on each other. If you really can't take it, then it kind of consumes you. So I think my high school friends also, they were not making the same like leaps in bettering themselves. They were still going to the same rec center, the same YMCA, talking about the same things. They were just, yeah, I can't talk to her. Yeah, I'm gonna get a job this summer. I'm trying to apply for internships. It was just the same old conversations. Yeah. Whereas like I'm nose-deep deep in like Tony Robbins books. I'm like, I have a future for myself. I have dreams and aspirations. No, I don't want to go to the rec center anymore.
