This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "The BEST vs WORST Types of Friends To Have" created on December 1, 2025. It discusses different types of friendships, emphasizing the importance of growth friends and advising on how to handle discouraging relationships.
Chapters
There's three kinds of friends. There's old friends. They were that chapter in your life. You don't see them again and you're fine with it. And then you have your maintenance friends, the people you see just enough to maintain the friendship. And then you have growth friends. You want to spend more time and see each other and you're trying new things. And growth friends are the best. Your job is to get as many of those as you can. It doesn't mean these other ones don't exist. It just means you have to kind of align it. The worst people to have in your life are people who are discouraging towards you. Your job is to decrease your time towards them. Sometimes that means a separation of relationships. Sometimes it means a divorce. That's extreme. Other times it's like, you know what? I'm not going to go to have brunch with this person every other Sunday. She's bumming me out. You need to be assertive in that situation and let them know, want us to be good friends. But if you keep speaking to me this way, I don't know that we can be friends. And most people go, I didn't even know I was doing it. I'm sorry. Or if they double down and then they're a real jerk. You were just given the gift of the evidence. You've been voting for.
