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Real Friendship Test

Name: Real Friendship Test
Uploaded: 2025-09-05T20:45:01+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker proposes a practical way to gauge whether someone is a genuine friend by observing their behavior toward your…

5 Sept 2025 · 0 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker proposes a practical way to gauge whether someone is a genuine friend by observing their behavior toward your entrepreneurial endeavors. The core test is whether friends will patronize your business—buy your product or use your services—especially when you cannot afford to give them freebies. The speaker emphasizes that true friends will not only spend money but also provide honest, constructive feedback about the product’s quality, helping you improve. The advice includes encouraging friends to be candid about shortcomings while remaining supportive, framing this feedback as essential for the speaker’s success.

An easy way to test if, if your friends are really your friends is do they buy the product in the beginning or do they ask you for free stuff? If they know you're broke, they know you can't afford to give free stuff away. Like, good friends will patronize the business. I said in a literal sense, they will, they will frequent the business. They will, they will buy the product. And if the product's not good, that's a great feedback. And you should tell them like, hey, it's my first rodeo. If it sucks, tell me, be nice about it. But like, tell me what I can do better with it because I want to win. And if they want you to win, they'll help.