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borodutch
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i believe there's an untapped potential in friendships with people who don't come off nice it's easy to be friends with purely nice people — but in my experience purely nice people rarely make it up the social ladder enough don't get me wrong, they can get high but not ceo-level high or successful entrepreneur-level high (with some exceptions that don't apply in 99.999% of cases) being friends with people who might seem "assholey" from time to time yet have the hearts of gold is only marginally more difficult yet sets up your network way better this quality extends further than the person you're friends with: if you only do the easy thing and be friends with only always-nice people, no matter who these people are, you won't jump higher than the heads of your friends; i.e. you won't go up high enough tl;dr: if you're friends with only always nice people, you're taking the easy path; and the easy path is rarely rewarding
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voboda
@voboda
I think there are bubbles here. Local maxima that exhibit different behaviour. The richest people I know, who built generational wealth, are nice. They're smart, sharp-and use that to take care of the people around them. They're nice in their manner of speaking, and their kind actions. And thus, surrounded by very capable, principled people who have their long-term interest at heart. Great teams. Places you want to work. Same is true for the happiest people I know (not the richest.) At the same time, I've known people who rose in cutthroat, Uber/Rocket Internet cultured organisations. Bottom 10% fired every month type of thing. They're not nice-no time for that-but are loving outside of their work life. Both bubbles have similar-minded people rising. Just that the happy, successful ones didn't feel they needed compromise their relationships or principles to get there.
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