You know, if you have a problem with impulse shopping, hang around with some frugal people. If you have a problem with binge drinking, hang around with a lot of sober people who know how to have fun without drinking too much. If you have a problem gossiping, hang around with people that never gossiping, can convict you in a way when you know when you're gossiping, you realize, you know what, this is integris. This isn't virtuous. I don't want to be that person. Hang around with the opposite,

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Hey, welcome to another episode of the Growth Lab podcast. I am Dr. Josh Ax. I'm a graduate of Johns Hopkins

University. I'm the founder of ancient nutrition and leaders.com. And each and every

week on this podcast, we uncover the science behind how to grow yourself, your health, your wealth,

your career, your relationships, how to grow spiritually. We grow through how to grow you. And on

today's episode, I'm going to be talking about why you need better friends.

In fact, this is one of the most important topics I could talk about because you become

who you surround yourself with.

And I'm really going to walk through how you find a great group of friends, what a great

group of friends actually looks like, and how you can develop and

grow together. My biggest life lesson, I mean this, I become who I surround myself with. And so the

fastest way that you can experience a breakthrough, if you want to have a relationship breakthrough,

start changing who you're hanging out with. If you want to have a breakthrough in your career

and double or triple your income, change who you're hanging out with. If you want to have a breakthrough in your career and double or triple your income, change who you're hanging out with. If you want to experience a breakthrough

in your health, hang out with different people. In fact, I'm going to go through a study at Duke

University and another incredible psychology study that actually shows the type of people. There's

actually some very specific characteristics they have that you want to

find in having friends that are lifelong friends that have your back, that fight for you,

that you can build a deep and meaningful relationship with. Now, I want to share something here,

and this is really a big deal. When I was growing up, my parents told me, and this drove me crazy, they were very conscious of who I hung out with. And they said, you can't hang out with this person. You can't hang out with this person. These are the people you can hang out with. And I thought, who are you to tell me who I can and can't hang out with? well, you know, come to find out now that I have a

three-year-old, I realize it's like, well, they were my parents. That was their job in a way.

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