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Cut Out These Friends

Name: Cut Out These Friends
Uploaded: 2025-08-24T20:00:32+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this self‑help segment, the speaker argues that friends who lower your odds of achieving goals act like a “slow spell” that weakens your performance…

24 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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In this self‑help segment, the speaker argues that friends who lower your odds of achieving goals act like a “slow spell” that weakens your performance. Using a 100% success baseline, she illustrates how three friends each imposing a 30% reduction can dramatically diminish outcomes. She proposes a simple diagnostic: ask whether a person increases or decreases the likelihood of failure toward your goals. If a friend decreases that likelihood, the recommendation is to remove them from your life. The segment combines a quantitative metaphor with a clear, actionable directive to prune detrimental relationships.

A friend who supports you is someone who deliberately decreases the possibility of failure. Because imagine that you have 100% chance of hitting your goal and you have 3 friends that have a 30% decrease. It's like you've got somebody who's casting like a slow spell on you and you're like moving so slow and you're like weak and like all your, all your hits have like half power. And so if you look at your friends and you ask yourself, does this person increase or decrease the possibility of failure with my goal? If the answer is decrease, then get rid of them.