You, Dave, what you got for me, man?

You may not know it, but your circle is killing your success.

Even if your circle is super successful, they could be killing your success because I have to, like, try to explain this and be careful because I am, I'm in a circle of friends.

I have a good network of people that are really, really successful.

But sometimes, if you can't handle it, being in a circle of super successful people kills your ambition and kills your drive.

It can have a reverse effect on you.

Some people say, well, if you hang around four people, you're bound to be the fifth.

I do believe that is true.

But for some people, it's hard to run your own race because you're constantly surrounded around people that are running a race that

you desire to have. And you try to be like this person, you try to be like that person,

you try to do what that person is doing. And you never really find yourself. And I believe you being

you is going to be the greatest success that you can accomplish. It's actually pretty hard to be you

these days. Forty years ago, it was a lot easier to be the greatest success that you can accomplish. It's actually pretty hard to be you these days.

40 years ago, it was a lot easier to be yourself because you didn't have as many examples

of other successful people.

So think about it before social media, Instagram, TikTok, all that kind of stuff.

The only people you saw were in your neighborhood.

So if you were in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, maybe you saw the dope dealer down the street. You're like, ooh, I want to do that.

I'm influenced by that. Cool. But you may have somebody in your family when you go to the family

reunion that is a doctor or somebody that's like got out of the family curse and they became successful.

They're like, oh, I want to be that.

Or you see like an athlete or something like that on TV.

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