Rob Dial shares a mentor's lesson about two types of people: batteries who energize you, and vacuums who drain your energy. Protect your energy by spending more time with batteries and cutting out the vacuums.
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So, man, one of my mentors told me this, and it changed the way that I saw people. There's two types of people in this world. There's batteries and there's vacuums. Batteries are people that. You know what I'm talking about, right? You spend time with them and you feel more energized. You're excited about life. You feel motivated. You just feel inspired to do more. Then there's people that you would call vacuums, People who suck energy from you. People that you can spend three minutes with this person, and you feel completely drained after being around them. And the biggest tip that I think people listening should understand is that spend more time with people who are batteries and spend less time with people who are vacuums. Their energy. Everyone listening. Your energy is so important. Your community is so important. The people that you surround yourself with is so important. If somebody is screwing up your energy, if they're sucking the energy from you, if they're making you feel worse about yourself, if they're talking trash to you, you need to get rid of them, and you need to spend more time with people who make you feel excited and motivated to be better in this world.