I think the secret plague in entrepreneurship that we don't like to talk about is the fact that most of us feel alone.

Do you know that it's actually been shown the more successful you become, the fewer friends we tend to report having.

And that sounds weird until you realize why that is.

And it's because once you've had a certain amount of success,

we think we don't need each other.

We can afford to isolate ourselves.

We can afford not to know our neighbors. We can afford to have everything

delivered to our house. We can afford to go on vacations by ourselves. We can afford to not

depend on other people. I mean, most of us became good entrepreneurs by learning not to depend on

other people, by learning

to take on the burden ourselves and to go in a new direction and to say that I will be responsible

for the results that I get in my life. That made us successful. But once you become successful,

it also drives us to be very unhappy. And of course, that wreaks havoc on

our health and our long-term wealth. There's a great book that you might be familiar with called

The Blue Zones. And the Blue Zones studies what the healthiest people in the world all do the same.

And there was a follow-up book called The Blue Zones for Happiness about what the happiest people

in the world all do.

And both of those groups, the healthiest and the happiest people, all had one thing in common.

And it wasn't diet, although that helped. It wasn't exercise, although that helped. Across the board,

it was relationships. It was feeling like other people had your back, like you were

a part of something. And as entrepreneurs, it's the last thing we think about. We want it, sure,

but we don't prioritize it. Of course, we're all familiar with the new cutting edge technology

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