Why you are the average of your friends

I’m sure you’ve heard that saying before.

“You are the average of your friends.“

I believe that this phrase applies to your environment in general. If you surround yourself with high-growth people, you’ll also adapt that mindset. During the past year, I got to live this saying myself, and it went both ways.

Last fall, I was in a relationship, and ended up spending a significant amount of time with that particular person and her friends.

And while they are all great people and I have nothing against them, they weren’t fascinated with self-development or entrepreneurship, and seemed to rather enjoy complaining about their status quo. I slowly noticed myself adapting to that mindset, doing less, feeling like I am working too hard for nothing. If I ever talked about business with them, they seemed to laugh off my ideas, like they were little capitalist projects that would never work out.

After leaving that relationship, my environment did a 180 degree flip. I went to Bali for a month, surrounded by people who I would see at run clubs in the morning and work together with in the afternoons. In the evenings, I would go to workshops, getting to know business owners, entrepreneurs and freelancers.

The switch of environment caused a huge increase in my motivation and productivity.

Because at the end of the day, we are herd animals. It’s safe to stick to the group, blend in. That’s why its so important to find your people, your clan. People who think like you, people who want to achieve the same things you do.

That’s also why we wanted to start getshitdone. To push each other. And as soon as we have enough people on board, we want to open the floodgates and get to know everyone better. If you want to get there faster, then share the newsletter with a friend!

Thanks for sticking around until the end, see you next week guys :))