Richmond Dinh delivers a short, conversational piece of personal-growth advice: prioritize who you spend time with over how you advance. He argues you should surround yourself with people who are more successful (aim to be the less-successful member of your top five) so you stay hungry, coachable, and learn from their energy, rather than being the smartest or most popular in your current group.
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Yeah. Well, to anyone watching right now, like, I mean, they're always probably thinking, you know, how can I get further ahead? Like, what's the first step I need to do? Always ask who, not how, who you are, the average of who you spend time with, period. And I know a lot of young people are watching this. They get a lot of, I guess, significance from being the smartest or the highest achiever or the most popular in their group. If you're the most popular in your group, you are in the wrong group. You need to be number five. You need to be the. You need to. When I say least popular, I don't mean like the least like, or the biggest loser or anything like that. I mean, like, you need to be forest kid in your top five, which means you need to be okay with hanging around people that are better than you because you're going to feel insecure. And you've got to resolve the story of why they want me in their top five when I'm the least successful. They want you because you're hungry, you're driven, you're willing, you're coachable, you want to learn, and you got that desire within you that, you know, like people like us when they. We see a young person who's just willing like that, which is which, you want to hang around them because their energy is infectious. And so never sell yourself short on your own energy. Even if you haven't got the physical, tangible track record. Find a group of people that's going to lift you up and don't try to be number one in the top five ever. I love that. That's such good advice. Dude, that will save people decades if they just do that advice alone.